In August 1947, Captain Hasnain was serving as the Adjutant of the 1st Battalion, the Garhwal Rifles, stationed at Peshawar ...
For a long time, the generation that bore the brunt of the violent and acrimonious partition of India – centered on the two provinces that were actually divided, Bengal in the east and Punjab in the ...
The summer of 1947 did more than just split a country -- it split families, homes, and the very idea of belonging. In the weeks that followed the announcement of Partition, trains became coffins on ...