A decade after partition

Divergent tales of septuagenarian Bengal - Atlantic Council

The decade after Partition was marked by targeted attacks on the Muslim community in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and border regions. In such a ...

History of Conflict in India and Pakistan

The countries have fought a series of wars since gaining their independence from Great Britain in 1947, largely over the Kashmir region, to which both ...

Women During Partition: Rebuilding Lives - Google Arts & Culture

A large number of women came forward to help people who had been displaced by Partition. They volunteered in hospitals and refugee camps. Many of them worked ...

'People were buried alive': On I-Day, a 90-year-old shares the still ...

It has been 74 years since the horrifying partition of India, but LR Bali remembers the incidents that shook his hometown in Punjab vividly.

Population growth and religious composition in India

... the decade following Partition (29.0%). In absolute numbers, all of ... the decades since independence. Sikhs, India's fourth-largest ...

The Booker Prize guide to… the partition of India

'When writers discuss the partition, they tend to focus on the birth of a nation, on the beginning of a new era,' says Desai. 'But Partition was ...

Opinion: Deep scars to South Asia's ecosystems are a legacy of ...

Seventy-five years on, the lessons of Partition in South Asia are more ... after independence, in the Partition. Those events, in which ...

7 Books About the Partition of India and Pakistan - Electric Literature

In 1947, after 200 years of control, the British finally quit the Indian subcontinent. Before leaving, the colonizers drew a line in the ...

Middle Grade Books Spotlight the Partition of India

The division that came with independence from Britain created a new Muslim-majority state of Pakistan and a Hindu-majority state in India.

It's been 70 years since India's Partition. There's finally a museum ...

India has a new museum devoted to its Partition with Pakistan. Organizers say they want to collect stories from people not just in India, ...

Anticipating Independence, No Premonition of Partition. The ...

4 The left hand variable for all regressions will be the branches of a district in a year, either 1939 or 1946. Though India had modern joint-stock banks since ...

India and Pakistan win independence | August 15, 1947 | HISTORY

The Indian independence movement first gained momentum at the beginning of the 20th century, and after World War I Gandhi organized the first of ...

From boxes at Delhi's Lahore Shed to digital files, how Partition-era ...

For almost a decade after the events of August 14, 1947, the road outside Lahore Shed is said to have been teeming with refugee families, who ...

Why the India-Pakistan partition suited the British empire - Quartz

On a crest in 1945, it was at its widest ever, but after hitting a trough, within twenty years it stood liquidated. Imperial Britain had ...

Independence, partition and post-1947 migrations

In 1971 after a bloody civil war in Pakistan, East Pakistan became the sovereign nation of Bangladesh. In the period after the 1947 partition, over 20 million ...

Tales of two cities Sialkot to Delhi - The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum

The dawn of Independence in 1947 brought with it great hope for both India and Pakistan but the ensuing communal riots and the large-scale ...

Remembering India's Partition, one act of courage at a time

Democrats begin soul-searching – and finger-pointing – after devastating loss ... For Mr. Singh, Partition's anniversary is an occasion to reflect ...

Recovery, Rupture, Resistance - jstor

and Pakistan ovcr almost a decade after. Partition. The material, symbolic and political significance of the abduction of womern was not lost either on the ...

What would have happened in India if it hadn't been partitioned in ...

Without accounting for the lost potential for growth (since 1947) if we want to see what India would be like without partition we only look at a ...

Dilemma of Indian Muslims After Partition: Yasmin Qureshi | KAFILA

The call for Pakistan and the Muslim League movement was more prominent in the elite or educated classes. For Abbu's family it was a distant ...