On June 3, 1947, the likes of Viceroy Louis Mountbatten, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah announced that British ...

It was in June 1947 that Mountbatten announced, out of the blue, that the British would pack up and leave in 2 months, from ...

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

The 1947 Partition cleaved a nation into two separate dominions but the epochal exercise also spelt an end to the British-led Indian Army, which was divided between India and Pakistan, a step that saw ...

The 1947 Partition of British India is memorialized as one of the bloodiest and largest migrations in human history. It is estimated that close to 15 million people were uprooted and that between ...

Here’s a look at the troubled legacy of Partition that has dictated the future course of India-Pakistan relations. NEW DELHI (AP) — India and Pakistan’s latest military conflict has expanded, days ...

BJP MP Nishikant Dubey attacked the Congress and Nehru-Gandhi family, calling the 1947 partition plan the ...

The division set off communal violence and displaced millions, changing the face and geopolitics of South Asia. A Muslim refugee train in northern India on its way from Delhi to Lahore, in 1947.Credit ...

India and Pakistan inherited the same economic legacy of underinvestment and neglect from Britain when they became independent states following the Partition on Aug. 15, 1947. Their colonial economies ...

India and Pakistan have paused the latest confrontation in their decades-long conflict with a ceasefire announced Saturday, but the tensions and wounds that come from years of fighting between the ...