For a long time, the generation that bore the brunt of the violent and acrimonious partition of India – centered on the two provinces that were actually divided, Bengal in the east and Punjab in the ...

Editor’s note: At midnight on Aug. 14, 1947, India achieved independence from British colonial rule and Pakistan was created as a separate homeland for Muslims. More than 200 years of British rule had ...

A refugee family that fled to Pakistan after the Partition of British India. Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images In his poignant, much-acclaimed short ...

THE PARTED EARTH. By Anjali Enjeti. Hub City Press. 272 pages. $26. “Though Deepa had longed to believe in something — in a benevolent force that provided guidance, in the possibility of transcendence ...

Hundreds of Muslim refugees jam inside and atop the engine and coaches of this train leaving the New Delhi area for Pakistan, Sept. 27, 1947. “I still don’t know what happened,” remarks Ranjit Kaur ...

Border Security Force personnel patrolling along the barbed wire fence at India-Pakistan border during Independence Day celebrations at RS Pura Sector in Jammu Kashmir on August 14, 2021. Border ...

Rupy C. Tut, "The Ghost Trains (of 1947)" (2019), organic and stone pigments on handmade, tea-stained hemp paper, 25 x 34 inches (image courtesy the artist) Last week marked 76 years of independence ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India and Pakistan’s latest military conflict has expanded, days after India carried out airstrikes in Pakistan that followed an attack by gunmen on tourists in India-controlled ...

Jyoti Thottam’s Sisters of Mokama, tells the story of missionaries in the Indian state of Bihar, who bore witness to the tumultuous era, offering a different way to understand the period. Jyoti ...

NEW DELHI — First comes the melancholy twang of a South Asian sitar, plucking a ballad about nostalgia for childhood. Then the name of a faraway yet familiar place appears on a black screen, in Hindi.

The division set off communal violence and displaced millions, changing the face and geopolitics of South Asia. A Muslim refugee train in northern India on its way from Delhi to Lahore, in 1947.Credit ...