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 ...

The summer of 1947 did more than just split a country -- it split families, homes, and the very idea of belonging. In the weeks that followed the announcement of Partition, trains became coffins on ...

Star-crossed lovers. Intoxicating scents. Old war journals containing ghosts and secrets. What more could you want in a work of historical fiction? Aanchal Malhotra's debut novel, "The Book of ...

Indians in a courtyard beneath the Red Fort celebrating the first anniversary of India’s independence, in New Delhi ,1948. (Photo by Max Desfor / AP) In the front parlor of a boarding house in 1950s ...

In his new book, Midnight's Furies, Nisid Hajari describes the riots and massacres that ensued after Pakistan was established as a separate state,... India's 1947 Partition And The 'Deadly Legacy' ...

With the dissolution of British rule in 1947, India was partitioned into two independent states: Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. The immediate result was chaos; sectarian violence; ...

Through quiet but searing installations, artist Pritika Chowdhry reckons with violence that ripples through generations: mass displacement, rape and riots tracing back to the snaking borders that ...

Published in Urdu four decades ago, Yadon Ka Jashan, Sahar's memoir of Partition, poetry, and bureaucratic life has finally ...

"Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), a new book by Nisid Hajari (L). (Author photo: Courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) The following ...

Star-crossed lovers. Intoxicating scents. Old war journals containing ghosts and secrets. What more could you want in a work of historical fiction? Aanchal Malhotra’s debut novel “The Book of ...

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 ...