Most fundamentally, Congress abandoned its program for a unified, secular India and accepted and implemented the communal partition of the subcontinent. While the Muslim League pressed for the ...

Anita Rani explores the human impact of the Partition of India in 1947 through the dramatic stories of four British families, including her own.

To commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Partition of India, BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour dedicated the entire programme to hearing about the forgotten women of Partition. In August 1947 ...

Seventy-seven years after independence, India still finds itself shackled to the very fault lines that tore it apart in 1947.

Partition of Bengal gave rise to a huge body of work — in text and audio-visual — both in West Bengal in India and in East Pakistan, later Bangladesh. Here is a list of recommended books, fiction and ...

As a site that predates the Partition, it offers a glimpse into the time when India was a unified entity. Today, it is a ...

The Partition Museum is the first of its kind, dedicated to the memory of the Partition of India in 1947 — its victims, its survivors and its lasting legacy. The Government of Punjab, India, has ...