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 ...

Samra Habib is the author of We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir. We never talked about Partition at home. Just like we never talked about the life my mother had before she married my ...

In the 20th century, the great powers devised a new method for solving entrenched conflicts in faraway countries The tool kit was simple; it required only maps and pens. It appealed because it could ...

When the British left India, the subcontinent descended into turmoil. As many as 14 million people were reported to have been displaced during the Partition of India, which saw widespread terror, ...

You can’t actually see the Great Wall of China from space but the border dividing India from Pakistan is unmistakable. For over 1,900 miles, from the shores of the Arabian Sea to the icy mountain ...

The British government’s partition of India in August 1947 was a supremely bungled event: undertaken at high speed and with apparently zero foresight. Speaking to journalists about the possibility of ...

Next week marks the 60 th anniversary of the partition of India. Two new books on the subject—Yasmin Khan’s The Great Partition and Alex von Tunzelmann’s Indian Summer—are reviewed in recent issues of ...

Border Security Force personnel patrolling along the barbed wire fence at India-Pakistan border during Independence Day celebrations at RS Pura Sector in Jammu Kashmir on August 14, 2021. Credit - ...