Mr Kohli, who is now 83, was a 13-year-old Sikh living in Ferozepur in the Eastern Punjab, when he heard on the radio that India would be divided. He says the idea of partition "sounded crazy".

Most fundamentally, Congress abandoned its program for a unified, secular India and accepted and implemented the communal partition of the subcontinent. While the Muslim League pressed for the ...

The company has established itself as a leading exporter of biscuits to 69 countries across six continents. It also holds ...

The 75th anniversary of the moment when India, Pakistan and what later became Bangladesh were created out of the former colony is being celebrated in South Asia this weekend. But the partition of ...

To commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Partition of India, BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour dedicated the entire programme to hearing about the forgotten women of Partition. In August 1947 ...

India was intended to be majority-Hindu and a new state – Pakistan – was created for Muslims. The division, known as partition, saw millions of Muslims moving to live in Pakistan and millions ...

The event 'Main Tum Hoon, Tum Main Ho' featured dramatised readings of 5 popular Hindi short stories based on the Partition.

Vimal Korpal and his son Ettan have matching tattoos of a religious symbol Seventy five years on since the partition of British India into two independent states, some elderly survivors are ...

Partition of Bengal gave rise to a huge body of work — in text and audio-visual — both in West Bengal in India and in East Pakistan, later Bangladesh. Here is a list of recommended books, fiction and ...

The partition of India was one of the most tumultuous historical events of the 20th century. In 1947, British India was divided into two separate states, India and Pakistan.

Born in a village in undivided Punjab, now in Pakistan, former prime minister Manmohan Singh's family witnessed first-hand the tragic Partition and he often spoke of communal harmony in his long ...