How does one remember one’s past – a past marked by bloodshed and the burning down of one’s ancestral home, violent riots and carnage during one of the largest forced migrations of the 20th century?

As India marks 80 years of independence, it also marks 80 years since the Radcliffe Line was abruptly published on August 17, 1947.

Refugees wait for water at a camp in Delhi. The partition of India put millions on the move. Columbia University/Wikimedia Commons In 1947, after years of anti-colonial resistance, Britain finally ...

Seventy years have passed since the partition of India and Pakistan. But its imprint on my life and how I think persists, taking different forms as time moves on. Strangely, I don’t think it bothered ...

L to R: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Lord Mountbatten and Pandit Nehru discuss partition of India 1946 Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 is to give the Get ...

New Delhi, Aug 14 (PTI) Vice-President C P Radhakrishnan on Friday said the 1947 Partition did not merely redraw India’s borders but also divided its thousand-year-old civilisation, and called upon ...

Seventy years after one of the most deadly and disruptive political cataclysms of modern times, the Partition Museum has opened in the Indian city of Amritsar. It is the first cultural institution ...

The partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 is, in a big way, the source of many of the troubles that the region witnesses today. Much literature has been produced narrating the man-made tragedy ...

Growing up, Guneeta Singh Bhalla heard her grandmother describe how she crossed into newly-independent India from Pakistan in 1947 with her young children, witnessing horrific scenes of carnage and ...

Milk is distributed to children at a refugee camp in Multan, Pakistan. The partition of India and subsequent creation of Pakistan came after years of campaigning for Indian independence from British ...