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.

Artist Pritika Chowdhry’s quiet but searing installations pay tribute to massacre casualties, women subjected to sexual violence and the forgotten victims of India’s bloody Partition.

If partition saw India lose access to key archaeological sites at Mohenjodaro, Harappa, and Taxila, and Pakistan lose custodianship of key Islamic monuments like the Taj Mahal, the fight over art ...

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.

The Partition Museum in Delhi was inaugurated in May 2023 and was meant to commemorate the 75th anniversary of India’s Partition but got delayed. It is the first museum in the world to dedicate ...

Two decades after the new Muslim nation of Pakistan was sundered from majority-Hindu India, W.H. Auden published a caustic little poem titled “Partition.” This was the label—always upper ...

The partition of India and subsequent creation of Pakistan came after years of campaigning for Indian independence from British rule. Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, who would become India's first ...