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 ...

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 ...

Writer and oral historian Malhotra’s forthcoming book looks at the stories behind the objects that people brought with them as they crossed between India and Pakistan during the partition.

India was intended to be majority-Hindu and a new state – Pakistan – was created for Muslims. The division, known as partition, saw millions of Muslims moving to live in Pakistan and millions ...

Nikkhil Advani's Freedom At Midnight, a web series on SonyLIV, which takes its title and story from Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre's seminal book ... the partition of India, my body will ...

Sahni wrote a fictional account of the carnage that accompanied the partition as ... independent dominions of India and Pakistan," notes Mr Iqbal in his fascinating book, The Aeroplane and the ...

Partition poisoned relations between India and Pakistan ... He is the author of a book about Kashmir in 1947 and is currently honorary professor at the University of Nottingham.