The novel anchors Partition not in a single cataclysmic rupture but in a continuum of smaller violences that women have always navigated ...

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NEW DELHI — First comes the melancholy twang of a South Asian sitar, plucking a ballad about nostalgia for childhood. Then the name of a faraway yet familiar place appears on a black screen, in Hindi.

Sam Dalrymple’s narrative history on the shattering of South Asia, in which individuals, their actions, and their circumstances take center stage, is fresh and readable ...

Through quiet but searing installations, artist Pritika Chowdhry reckons with violence that ripples through generations: mass displacement, rape and riots tracing back to the snaking borders that ...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, viceroy of India, discusses Britain's partition plan with Hindu and Muslim leaders in the summer of 1947. AP Photo/Max Desfor For both nations, independence almost immediately ...

The neighbors have been in conflict over the disputed border region since their independence and partition in 1947.

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A viral video of an abandoned Punjab railway track has revived memories of the 1947 Partition, sparking emotional ...

A literary event at Delhi University discussed the 1947 Partition of India, analyzing its socio-political impacts and ...