Partition of British India

The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in ...

The Bloody Legacy of Indian Partition | The New Yorker

In August, 1947, when, after three hundred years in India, the British finally left, the subcontinent was partitioned into two independent ...

Partition of India | Summary, Cause, Effects, & Significance - Britannica

Partition of India, division of British India into the independent countries of India and Pakistan according to the Indian Independence Act ...

Partition: Why was British India divided 75 years ago? - BBC

Why was British India partitioned? In 1946, Britain announced it would grant India independence. No longer able to afford to administer the ...

1947 Partition of India & Pakistan - Spotlight at Stanford

As the provinces of the Punjab and Bengal were effectively split in half approximately seven million Hindus and Sikhs and seven million Muslims found themselves ...

Partition of British India - The National Archives

Introduction to Partition. The partition of British India occurred in August 1947 when the British government withdrew from India after almost two hundred years ...

The Story of the 1947 Partition as Told by the People Who Were There

By 1947, about half of South Asia was ruled by the British Crown as “British India,” surrounded by more than 500 indigenous and autonomous kingdoms, many of ...

Independence and Partition, 1947 | National Army Museum

India and Pakistan's independence, at midnight on 14-15 August 1947, was a key moment in the history of the British Empire. India had been its cornerstone and ...

The Ongoing Legacies of the Partition of British India - Asia Society

Through a series of oral histories, author Anam Zakaria shows how Partition continues to unfold and impact lives across three nations.

Partition of India - 1947 Partition, History

In August 1947, when independence was granted to the former imperial domain of British India, it was partitioned into two countries – India and Pakistan.

Partition of 1947 continues to haunt India, Pakistan - Stanford Report

The partition created the independent nations of Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India, separating the provinces of Bengal and ...

Getting to the why of British India's bloody Partition - Harvard Gazette

Harvard's Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute is examining the ramifications of the violent Partition of British India in 1947.

Why was India split into two countries? - Haimanti Roy - YouTube

-- In 1947, the British viceroy announced that after 200 years of British rule, India would gain independence and be partitioned into Hindu ...

Five myths about the partition of British India - The Conversation

Myths have been established around this history based on false assumptions. Here we examine five of them.

Teaching About the 1947 Partition of British India: Literature and ...

This essay discusses source materials for use in the classroom that go beyond the official documentation of the political events surrounding the end of ...

The Partition: The British game of 'divide and rule' | Al Jazeera

On August 15, 1947, India won independence: a moment of birth that was also an abortion, since freedom came with the horrors of the partition.

India partition: the Red Cross response to the refugee crisis

The partition of British India in August 1947 triggered one of the largest population movements in history. This is how the we responded to ...

India's Partition: A History in Photos - The New York Times

There are no tallies for how many were raped. “It's a really, really massive part of world history,” said Guneeta Singh Bhalla, the founder of ...

Why the Partition of India and Pakistan still casts a long shadow over ...

The end of British colonial rule birthed two sovereign nations—but hastily drawn borders caused simmering tensions to boil over.

Partition - Never Such Innocence

On 20th February 1947 Prime Minister Clement Attlee declared that Britain would leave India by 30th June 1948, marking the end to two centuries of colonial ...