Lines that Changed Lives In 1947, the Partition of India split British India into new nations—India and Pakistan, with East Pakistan later becoming Bangladesh. A hastily drawn boundary called the […] ...

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 ...

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

Nobody knew what the liberation of India from British rule that took place in the summer of 1947 would bring, but few would have expected its legacy to be a violent separation that would displace 14 ...

The 1947 Partition of British India is memorialized as one of the bloodiest and largest migrations in human history. It is estimated that close to 15 million people were uprooted and that between ...

As India and Pakistan celebrate 70 years of independence this week, the legacy of the August 1947 Partition of British-ruled India that resulted in the birth of these two nations is something both are ...