Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rishabh R. Jain, the Associated Press A worker sorts through photographs, newspaper clippings and other material that will cover the walls at the Partition ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leaders in New Delhi agree on the plan to partition India: from left, Jawaharlal Nehru, Hastings ...

Seventy-one years ago, a line drawn between India and Pakistan ushered in a bloody separation that left lasting scars on both sides of the border. Upon independence from the British Empire, the two ...

Nikkhil Advani discusses the challenges of creating 'Freedom at Midnight', a series about India's pre-independence era. The ...

Seventy years later, memories of the 1947 Partition stir deep emotions and some soul-searching among the last generation of Indians to have... For India's Oldest Citizens, Independence Day Spurs ...

Through quiet but searing installations, artist Pritika Chowdhry reckons with violence that ripples through generations: mass displacement, rape and riots tracing back to the snaking borders that ...

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 ...

When India and Pakistan gained their independence from Britain, a border was drawn between the two new countries. The split started a chain reaction of violence that led to one of the largest forced ...

Imagine waking up and being told that you, your friends, your family, have a month to pack up and move across the country. Not just that, but when you get to whatever destination you're assigned, ...

Aug. 15 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1914, a U.S. ship sailed from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, officially opening the Panama Canal. In 1935, humorist Will Rogers and pilot Wiley Post ...

A small girl is woken in the night. The family is to travel immediately from their idyllic home near Lahore, in what is current-day Pakistan, to India. Along the way she sees overturned bullock carts, ...