The British government’s partition of India in August 1947 was a supremely bungled event: undertaken at high speed and with apparently zero foresight. Speaking to journalists about the possibility of ...

We explore the real history of the partition of India and Pakistan and the British crown. Ms. Marvel, a Pakistani American teenager named Kamala Khan, is the latest superhero to join the Marvel ...

Muslim refugees sit on the roof of an overcrowded coach railway train near New Delhi, trying to leave India after the 1947 Partition. AP Photo Partition in South Asia refers to that horrific year when ...

It was late 2019, and I was trying to untangle the threads of my father’s rapidly fading memory. When I asked him to tell me his story, I didn’t expect him to start there. My father was born into an ...

L to R: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Lord Mountbatten and Pandit Nehru discuss partition of India 1946 Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 is to give the Get ...

In Jalandhar, the northwestern Indian city where Syed Sadiq Abrar was born, he was related to nearly everyone in his close-knit neighborhood: His grandmother lived next door to his great-aunt, and ...

When you get into discussions about the Middle East with certain people, you start hearing that the great mistake was the partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. If ...

You can’t actually see the Great Wall of China from space but the border dividing India from Pakistan is unmistakable. For over 1,900 miles, from the shores of the Arabian Sea to the icy mountain ...

As British rule in Asia ended, the emergence of new borders and ethnic enclaves dispossessed millions.

India, Dec. 14 -- In August 1947, India was partitioned into India and Pakistan. What was intended to be a political solution to terminate colonial control resulted in one of history's largest, most ...

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 ...