Oskar Spate, one of the only geographers associated with the Punjab Boundary Commission in India, regularly wrote in his private journals about the fundamental conflict between the political demand ...

As India and Pakistan celebrate 70 years of independence this week, the legacy of the August 1947 Partition of British-ruled India that resulted in the birth of these two nations is something both are ...

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 ...

Nobody knew what the liberation of India from British rule that took place in the summer of 1947 would bring, but few would have expected its legacy to be a violent separation that would displace 14 ...

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 ...