As the horrors of Partition tore through cities, Prithvi Theatre staged plays that spoke against communal division. The troupe also stepped in to help those affected by the violence.

Imtiaz Ali's new film Main Vaapas Aaunga is set to delve into the enduring trauma of the 1947 Partition, continuing Bollywood ...

The end of British colonial rule birthed two sovereign nations—but hastily drawn borders caused simmering tensions to boil over. 75 years later, memories of Partition still haunt survivors. People ...

The dominant narrative on the Indian nationalist movement, both in India and in Western academia, has been to portray Bharatiya Jan Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee as a communalist. This is due ...

The 1947 Partition of British India is memorialized as one of the bloodiest and largest migrations in human history. It is estimated that close to 15 million people were uprooted and that between ...

A small girl is woken in the night. The family is to travel immediately from their idyllic home near Lahore, in what is current-day Pakistan, to India. Along the way she sees overturned bullock carts, ...

In most parts of the Anglophone world, “partition” is just a noun or verb, some word in the English language, but in South Asia it is the past, and the present, and the quickly festering future. For ...

Saad Mohammad Al-Husainy, a student in Birmingham, marries Colette O'Neill in 1954. Photograph courtesy of Sùna Al-Husainy, CC BY-ND The partition of the Indian subcontinent was catastrophic for the ...