Lines that Changed Lives In 1947, the Partition of India split British India into new nations—India and Pakistan, with East ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India and Pakistan have agreed to a ceasefire following U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades. The ceasefire deal ...

As British rule in Asia ended, the emergence of new borders and ethnic enclaves dispossessed millions.

“Partition is an important but overlooked chapter of world history, especially in South Asia, a region from where many of our ...

The question is unsettling. It resists comfort and refuses the ease of inherited certainties. Yet, on Republic Day, when ...

Mahatma Gandhi, who used passive resistance in the fight for Indian independence, is known worldwide as a symbol of peace. But Americans know much less about the violence that erupted when the British ...

The two-parter follows the extraordinary events that unfolded from 1946 in the context of a rumored affair between Nehru and Mountbatten’s wife Edwina Mountbatten, along with the growing enmity ...

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