Seventy years after one of the most deadly and disruptive political cataclysms of modern times, the Partition Museum has opened in the Indian city of Amritsar. It is the first cultural institution ...

Through quiet but searing installations, artist Pritika Chowdhry reckons with violence that ripples through generations: mass displacement, rape and riots tracing back to the snaking borders that ...

Reporting from Amritsar, India — Amolak Swani’s knobby fingers gripped a cane as she shuffled into the room, her daughter holding her at the elbow. She settled into a chair with a sigh and began ...

As India and Pakistan celebrate 70 years of independence this week, the legacy of the August 1947 Partition of British-ruled India that resulted in the birth of these two nations is something both are ...

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, ...

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 this Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019, file photo, villagers check their names in the final list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and take out prints at an internet shop in Pabhokati village in ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In August 1947, Great Britain relinquished its grip on 1.8 million square miles of ...