Aamir Khan Productions has confirmed that its upcoming period drama Lahore 1947 will hit Indian cinemas on August 13. A Partition-era film arriving during India’s Independence Day week is never a ...

Muslim refugees sit on the roof of an overcrowded coach railway train near New Delhi, trying to leave India after the 1947 Partition. AP Photo Partition in South Asia refers to that horrific year when ...

“Is that our new home?” is Sita’s constant refrain, after being uprooted from their land as a consequence of India’s Partition in Ritwik Ghatak’s cult Partition film Subarnarekha. The search for a new ...

Editor’s note: At midnight on Aug. 14, 1947, India achieved independence from British colonial rule and Pakistan was created as a separate homeland for Muslims. More than 200 years of British rule had ...