A Muslim protester shouts at security personnel on the streets of Shaheen Bagh, a neighborhood in Delhi, in 2020.
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Thanks to a strong oral Urdu literary tradition in South Asia, poems from the past linger in the popular imagination.
Border conflicts, spanning different time periods and places, are behind many of the big international disputes today.
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Religious, racial and class-based differences often get politicized.
Esh Alladi as Pipli in Great Expectations.
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This adaptation is set in Bengal in 1899, where rumours that the British Empire’s plans for partition have spread.
The 2023 G20 logo on display in New Delhi, India. By attending events in Kashmir, G20 delegates are tacitly condoning India’s colonial control of the region.
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In Indian-administered Kashmir, the Indian government is using tourism as a tactic to strengthen its colonial control of the region.
Lord Louis Mountbatten, viceroy of India, discusses Britain’s partition plan with Hindu and Muslim leaders in the summer of 1947.
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Economic growth picked up significantly for both India and Pakistan after independence, but they’ve chosen very different paths since.
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Rushdie’s books have inspired generations of readers and writers – and a recent attempt to kill him.
Mohammad Ali Jinnah addressing the assembly in Karachi on Aug. 15, 1947, after the creation of Pakistan.
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Jinnah insisted on secular education, gender equality and equal rights for minorities – all of which remain unrealized dreams in Pakistan.
Leaders in New Delhi agree on the plan to partition India: From left, Jawaharlal Nehru, Hastings Ismay, Louis Mountbatten and Ali Jinnah.
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The fate of the so-called princely states was a particularly contentious issue during India’s Partition, which killed about 1 million people and left millions more displaced.
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Nehru was a fervent believer in what became known as ‘non-alignment’ — perhaps his greatest contribution to the 20th century world.
All voting-age Indians may soon be asked to submit government-issued ID to prove citizenship. That may be a challenge for women, religious minorities and members of oppressed castes.
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Many women, Muslims and members of oppressed castes in India lack government-issued ID. Yet these documents may soon be required to prove their citizenship.
Meal-time in Kashmir is a time of dialogue.
Omer Aijazi
As Kashmir faces new challenges, our forms of allyship must also evolve. Perhaps we can learn some lessons from its kitchens.
We focus on Kashmir in the third part of our India Tomorrow podcast series: its history, the lives of its people, and the conflict over its future.
Lord Louis Mountbatten, viceroy of India, met with Indian leaders to discuss partition.
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The partition of India led to more than a million deaths. A scholar argues how British royal, Lord Louis Mountbatten, who hurriedly drew the new borders in secret, was largely responsible.
People fleeing on bullock carts as mass migration happened during the partition.
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At midnight on August 15, 1947, India achieved freedom from more than two centuries of colonial rule. Hours earlier, Pakistan was declared a new nation. Was partition inevitable?