Mahatma Gandhi, who used passive resistance in the fight for Indian independence, is known worldwide as a symbol of peace. But Americans know much less about the violence that erupted when the British ...
In August 1947, Captain Hasnain was serving as the Adjutant of the 1st Battalion, the Garhwal Rifles, stationed at Peshawar ...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India and Pakistan’s latest military conflict has expanded, days after India carried out airstrikes in Pakistan that followed an attack by gunmen on tourists in India-controlled ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, viceroy of India, discusses Britain's partition plan with Hindu and Muslim leaders in the summer of 1947. AP Photo/Max Desfor For both nations, independence almost immediately ...
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 ...
Titled ‘Recalibrating Partition’, the discussion at the India International Centre brought together perspectives from across ...
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 ...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India and Pakistan have agreed to a ceasefire following U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades. The ceasefire deal ...