How India’s partition in 1947 led to the strife over Kashmir today. Fears of an all-out conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have abated with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, but the ...

75 years after Partition: These maps show how the British split India. The hastily drawn border, known as the Radcliffe Line, attempted to carve out two nations along religious lines—but sparked ...

As the Partition plan is announced in the summer of 1947, millions of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs flee across the new border between India and Pakistan. Mass violence ensues.

1949 — A UN-brokered ceasefire line leaves Kashmir divided between India and Pakistan, with the promise of a U.N.-sponsored vote that would enable the region's people to decide whether to be ...

The end of British colonial rule birthed two sovereign nations—but hastily drawn borders caused simmering tensions to boil over. 75 years later, memories of Partition still haunt survivors.

India and Pakistan have been in conflict since 1947 Partition. A look at its troubled legacy In this Sept, 27, 1947 file photo, Muslim refugees crowd onto a train bound for Pakistan, as it leaves ...

The partition of India was a colossal mistake. Its adverse effects can never be corrected or forgotten. March 29, 2025. Leave A Comment Cancel Reply.

Radcliffe had never been to India before and never came again. Whatever line he had devised, tens of millions would have felt aggrieved. The hasty partition of these provinces triggered one of the ...

It’s been 75 years since the Partition of India — a rupture that still shapes the lives of those born in its aftermath. Oral historian Aanchal Malhotra speaks with Nahlah Ayed about how the ...

Here’s a look at the history of the conflict. Partition and bloodshed . In August 1947, Britain granted India its independence after a century of direct colonial rule, preceded by another ...

1949 — A UN-brokered ceasefire line leaves Kashmir divided between India and Pakistan, with the promise of a U.N.-sponsored vote that would enable the region's people to decide whether to be ...