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India-pakistan Partition

Jinnah's tragedy

The discussion of Kashmir in the book is, however, very brief and almost cryptic notwithstanding that Jinnah was at the helm of affairs in Pakistan for a significant part of the first Kashmir War

Jinnah's tragedy
Updated On : 05 Aug 2020 | 2:20 AM IST

The Pind Collective, a virtual home for Indian and Pakistani artists

Visual artists, poets, dancers and filmmakers have contributed to themes ranging from the meaning of home to ideas of resistance, and gendered spaces.

The Pind Collective, a virtual home for Indian and Pakistani artists
Updated On : 26 Jun 2020 | 11:48 PM IST

The 1947 Partition Archive: South Asia's largest oral history collection

The world had almost completely forgotten about Partition, and many never learned about it

The 1947 Partition Archive: South Asia's largest oral history collection
Updated On : 21 Jul 2018 | 2:32 AM IST

India's Muslims and the price of partition

Some of the League's fears in the 1930s and '40s have returned to haunt Muslims in Modi's India

India's Muslims and the price of partition
Updated On : 18 Aug 2017 | 9:43 AM IST

How a British royal's monumental errors made India's partition more painful

Mountbatten kept the partition maps a closely guarded secret

How a British royal's monumental errors made India's partition more painful
Updated On : 17 Aug 2017 | 9:31 AM IST

3 stories of new beginnings after the horror of India-Pak partition

The partition of the Indian subcontinent was catastrophic for the over 10 mn people

3 stories of new beginnings after the horror of India-Pak partition
Updated On : 16 Aug 2017 | 11:53 AM IST

Partition: A military historian traces the countdown to the tragedy

British administration ignored the mounting evidence of violence between Hindus and Muslims

Partition: A military historian traces the countdown to the tragedy
Updated On : 05 Aug 2017 | 12:09 AM IST