Growing up, Guneeta Singh Bhalla heard her grandmother describe how she crossed into newly-independent India from Pakistan in ...

In 1947, India was divided into two provinces, leading to confusion, chaos and violence. In 1947, the British divided up its former colony of India into two provinces. What followed was confusion, ...

Mahatma Gandhi, who used passive resistance in the fight for Indian independence, is known worldwide as a symbol of peace. But Americans know much less about the violence that erupted when the British ...

PHULWAL, India — As Sikka Khan tells it, he was struck by tragedy, but also fortune, in 1947. He was a 6-month-old orphan, the son of Muslim laborers caught in the chaos of India’s partition. Sadiq, ...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, viceroy of India, discusses Britain's partition plan with Hindu and Muslim leaders in the summer of 1947. AP Photo/Max Desfor For both nations, independence almost immediately ...

NEW DELHI — India and Pakistan have agreed to a ceasefire following U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades. The ceasefire deal on ...

"Apart from the field of cricket that will miss Lala Amarnath forever, his death is a personal loss to me, for the close association that we had. A great tactician with superb knowledge of the game, ...

NCERT has released a special module for Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, holding Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the Congress and then Viceroy Lord Mountbatten responsible for India’s Partition, as reported by ...

Anubhav Sinha‘s upcoming social drama “Bheed,” starring Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar, is a rarity in contemporary Indian cinema in that it is made completely in black and white. Images from the ...

After reading some interesting analyses of the dominance of the Hindi-belt in India, I thought about my work on culture, language, and politics, specifically the decay of Urdu litearure in ...

India and Pakistan have agreed to a ceasefire following U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades. NEW DELHI (AP) — India and Pakistan ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Surupa Gupta, University of Mary Washington (THE CONVERSATION) India and Pakistan ...