The Alternate India ... And India and Pakistan, since Partition, were built on the fiction that the warp and weft of their shared identity could somehow be separated.

Sarah Ansari has previously received funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to explore the impact of Independence and Partition on life in India and Pakistan. “Partition ...

But in the end the party accepted the partition of India as a fait accompli. ... By that time, the Congress leadership had also accepted that there was no alternative to the partition of India.

Alternative narratives on a bitter separation. Aanchal Malhotra’s project brings the stories of India’s partition, told through objects that refugees brought with them ...

And the only alternative to coercion is partition." With those words, the last Viceroy of British India, Lord Mountbatten, announced that Britain would be granting independence not to one nation, but ...

India partition. #Perspective / The Great Divide that brought them together. While the Partition of 1947 is a chapter that historians are constantly bringing up, ...

The alternative was fraught with danger and devastation, almost certain loss of property and possibly loss of life. But “India was their home,” she said. To leave it behind was heartbreaking.

A new book by the historian Pallavi Raghavan offers a very different account about relations between these two South Asian rivals in the immediate aftermath of Partition in 1947. | Latest News India ...

The YouTube channel Punjabi Lehar, based in Pakistan, has reunited people who were separated by the partition of India in 1947. By Salman Masood and Mike Ives FAISALABAD, Pakistan — Nasir ...

How the Partition of India happened – and why its effects are still felt today. As the British Empire became an unaffordable burden, planning for India's independence quickly ran into trouble ...

Partition triggered riots, mass casualties, and a colossal wave of migration. Millions of people moved to what they hoped would be safer territory, with Muslims heading towards Pakistan, and Hindus ...