The four-time Dora Award winner sits down with Q's Tom Power to discuss her play Trident Moon, and why she wanted the story ...

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 SAC was academic advisor to the project of The Partition Museum which is in Amritsar, India, set up by The Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust (TACHT). The SAC offered LSE’s cutting-edge ...

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 ...

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 ...

Butalia, author of The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India, explained to an audience at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts at SFU Woodward's that her uncle and grandmother ...

Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in art of the South Asian region. Despite having some form of shared histories, each country in the subcontinent came into being through their unique ...

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 ...

The communal identities it created eventually culminated in the end of British rule and the partition of India in 1947 The roots of Bangladesh go back in the 1905 partition of Bengal.