Partition of india

Historian Priya Satia discusses the history of the 1947 partition of India and how that is at the root of today’s continuing tensions between Pakistan and India.

The interactive map has been created using "The Global environmental stratification", based on modeling future climate conditions as predicted by 63 of the emission scenario combinations

Anjali Enjeti, author of "The Parted Earth," recommends stories about the largest human migration in history

Seventy years after India and Pakistan won their independence, why are relations still tense?

In a new book, Romila Thapar takes us on a journey of Indian historiography over the last 50 years, attempting to interpret events spanning at least 5,000 years

70 years ago, Partition came into effect, dividing British India into two new, independent countries:

The partition of 1947 still haunts the memories of every Indian but few remember the Bengal partition of 1905 and its ramifications on the Indian Freedom Struggle.