The Women’s Courtyard, also releasing July 15, 2025, offers a unique perspective on Partition, one that is often overlooked. Set during the same period, the novel centers on the lives of women ...

Hindu nationalists point to Partition and the creation of Pakistan as the ultimate manifestation of Muslim disloyalty. Political tensions started to strain India's secular model in the 1980s.

In December 1946, India’s Constituent Assembly convened to draft the constitution for independent India. However, a major political crisis emerged when the Muslim League boycotted the proceedings.

Though the British left the new nation-states of India and Pakistan in 1947, increasing Hindu-Muslim tensions after partition continued to inform family planning propaganda in independent India.

As Punjab burned during the Partition of India, Nawab Ahmad Ali Khan’s Malerkotla remained an island of peace. Though other ...

Historian Sam Dalrymple traces the five partitions of Britain’s Indian Empire, from Burma to the Arabian Peninsula, and the ...

Kolkata: Nobody would even dare to touch a Hindu or a nationalist Muslim Bengali, state BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said ...