The Mountbatten Plan: How June 3 sealed the Partition of India

Explore The Hindu archives on the Mountbatten Plan; how the June 3 Plan of 1947 for British withdrawal sealed the chaotic ...
Los Angeles Times

Finally, a museum will document the horrors of partition that many Indians and Pakistanis want to forget

Reporting from Amritsar, India — Amolak Swani’s knobby fingers gripped a cane as she shuffled into the room, her daughter holding her at the elbow. She settled into a chair with a sigh and began ...
BBC

Partition: Why was British India divided 75 years ago?

Every evening since 1959, Indian and Pakistani troops have lowered their flags together at the Wagah border crossing When Britain granted India independence, 75 years ago, the territory it had ruled ...
The Brown Daily Herald

Lecturer discusses political psychology of Indian partition

“It is not easy to kill without repercussions,” said Ashis Nandy, an Indian political psychologist, while speaking about the 1947-48 partition of India to a crowded room in Pembroke Hall. “Even though ...
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10,000 Memories: Remembering The Partition Of India In Los Altos

In 1947, the Partition of India split British India into new nations—India and Pakistan, with East Pakistan later becoming Bangladesh. A hastily drawn boundary called the Radcliffe Line carved the ...
Christian Science Monitor

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

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
CNN

‘Anti-memorials’ honor Indian Partition’s unseen victims, 75 years on

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 ...
Reuters

India Partition: After 75 years, tech opens a window into the past

Aug 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Growing up, Guneeta Singh Bhalla heard her grandmother describe how she crossed into newly-independent India from Pakistan in 1947 with her young children, ...
CNN

‘Lives torn asunder.’ The children of Indian Partition, 75 years on

A small girl is woken in the night. The family is to travel immediately from their idyllic home near Lahore, in what is current-day Pakistan, to India. Along the way she sees overturned bullock carts, ...
The Diplomat

Remembering the Partition of India

The partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 is, in a big way, the source of many of the troubles that the region witnesses today. Much literature has been produced narrating the man-made tragedy ...
Post and Courier

Did the Indian Partition of 1947 Cause 9/11?

Warning: I’m about to go all math and science on yo’ ass.Have you ever heard the phrase “butterfly effect”?It’s the popular name for the chaos-theory notion of sensitive dependence.The phrase comes ...