Last week marked 76 years of independence from two centuries of British rule for Pakistan and India, but much of the world’s population has not been educated on the details of the Indian ...

Husain, known as the Picasso of India, painted a series of works depicting the horrors of partition, which are now a part of Indian art history. The partition of India also caused a division of ...

As the Partition plan is announced in the summer of 1947, millions of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs flee across the new border between India and Pakistan. Mass violence ensues.

Something similar took place in 1947 with the Partition of India. ... Intriguingly, in comparison to historians and writers on art, visual artists’ responses to Partition have been peculiar.

Sarah Ansari has previously received funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to explore the impact of Independence and Partition on life in India and Pakistan. “Partition ...

Art World Partition Museum Opens Near India-Pakistan Border, Ending Decades of Silence. The deadly postcolonial upheaval will be memorialized through archives, personal effects, and art.

The British government’s partition of India in August 1947 was a supremely bungled event: undertaken at high speed and with apparently zero foresight. Speaking to journalists about the possibility of ...

A virtual reality project helps survivors of India's Partition glimpse long-lost birthplaces they fled as children. Fraught relations between India and Pakistan mean they can't visit in person.