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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

How India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were formed. The process of partition was not simple. In addition to the British-controlled territories, the subcontinent also consisted of many other ...

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 ...

Seventy-five years after the blood-soaked partition of British India, the scars can still be found in this unique Himalayan community which straddles the boundary between what are now the Indian ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...