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 ...

Nobody knew what the liberation of India from British rule that took place in the summer of 1947 would bring, but few would have expected its legacy to be a violent separation that would displace 14 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DELHI/KOLKATA/PUNE/TIBBA/ BENGALURU – Mr Vikram Kalra stashes away his prized possessions in a steel locker in his Delhi home. Among them is a fraying hand-drawn ...

When Guneeta Singh Bhalla was 19 years old, her paternal grandmother Harbhajan Kaur sat her down at her home in New Jersey to relay a harrowing migration story. The date was August 1947. The place, ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday recalled the sufferings of countless people affected by India's partition and reiterated the commitment to strengthen the bonds of harmony that hold our ...