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 ...

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 partition of India in 1947 is one of the most significant events in Indian history. It led to the creation of two independent nations: India and Pakistan. It is to be noted that the partition was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Newly colourised film tells the story of the partition of India and the personal rivalries of some of the key players - from Viceroy Mountbatten to Nehru and the Viceroy's wife ...

NEW DELHI — First comes the melancholy twang of a South Asian sitar, plucking a ballad about nostalgia for childhood. Then the name of a faraway yet familiar place appears on a black screen, in Hindi.

PHULWAL, India — As Sikka Khan tells it, he was struck by tragedy, but also fortune, in 1947. He was a 6-month-old orphan, the son of Muslim laborers caught in the chaos of India’s partition. Sadiq, ...

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 ...

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