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A visitor looks at an art installation, symbolizing the partition of India and Pakistan at the Amritsar Partition Museum in Amritsar. The Partition Museum is centred around the the...

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Biggest move Trains carry refugees from Pakistan to India after Partition in 1947

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Two-way tragedy A train spilling with Muslim refugees readies to leave for Pakistan

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Unity dreams deferred Jinnah after being sworn in as Pakistan’s head of state on August 14, 1947

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October 27, 1947. India. Liberty and Death

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Punjab, 1947 Partition’s bloody bifurcation

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Feryal Ali Gauhar
Shahrukh Khan cousins Noor Jehan with family
Shahrukh Khan cousins Noor Jehan with husband.
Dilip Kumar’s house in Doma Gali Around here, he played with swords on the streets

Mohammad Sajjad
Dilip Kumar house in peshawar
The watchman Jumma Khan and the building of the primary school where Dalip Kumar studied till class 5th
The watchman Jumma Khan and the building of the primary school where Dalip Kumar studied till class 5th
Mohammad Din, Dilip Kumar fan
Shah Rukh Khan: Photo colarge
Raj Kapoor house
Raj Kapoor house
Raj Kapoor house

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Jinnah's Role In Weakening Indian Territorial Integrity

Muhammad Ali Jinnah had demanded autonomy for the provinces and one third Muslim presence in all ministries. That was the beginning of the games played by the British in capitalizing on the fears of minorities in India.

Sep 24, 2020

| Vappala Balachandran
Jinnah, Partition And The Rise Of Hindu Nationalism

The division of British India on the basis of religious majorities was the principal factor that reinforced and legitimized the ideology of Hindu nationalism.

Sep 19, 2020

| Mohammed Ayoob
Jinnah Was 'Secular', Congress' Communalism Caused Partition: BJP's CK Bose

Unfortunately, Jinnah passed away, and thereafter Pakistan became an Islamic state. But India remained a secular state and that is the spirit of India, CK Bose said.

Jan 22, 2020

| ANI
Got Freedom But Lost Friends, Saw Division: Ruskin Bond On 1947

Ruskin bond recalls his memories of 1947, his friends and his meet with Azhar.

May 17, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Presenting The Past: Tracing History Of Shared Names Across India And Pakistan

India-Pakistan, locked into a hyphenated relationship of a shared history and a divided present, is not just about rift but also about the many vestiges of unity that have survived seven decades.

Mar 14, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Centre Directs State Govts To Put Enemy Properties To 'Public Use'

Of the total properties left behind by those who took Pakistani citizenship, 4,991 are located in Uttar Pradesh, the highest in the country.

Mar 11, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
'Past Is Past': Dalai Lama Apologises For Saying Nehru Opposed Gandhi's Wish To Make Jinnah PM

He had said Nehru had a "self-centred attitude" to become India's first prime minister even though Mahatma Gandhi was in favour of Muhammad Ali Jinnah taking the top post at that time.

Aug 10, 2018

| Outlook Web Bureau
Does Dropping Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Daughter From Delhi Event Prove The Legendary Poet Was Right About Our Independence?

May 14, 2018

| Satata Karmakar
Jawahar Lal Nehru, Maulana Azad And Sardar Patel To Blame For Partition, Not Jinnah, Says Farooq Abdullah

Mar 05, 2018

| Outlook Web Bureau
'Deendayal Upadhyay Wanted A United India', BYJM Exam Paper Blames Nehru, Jinnah's 'Greed Of Power' For Partition

Opposition Congress termed it a conspiracy to mislead the youth.

Jan 24, 2018

| Outlook Web Bureau

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By Burying What We Should Have Known, Historians Have Let Us Down

Trans-generation trauma has been passed on from generation to generation. Memory is now a lived reality, writes psychologist, Rajat Mitra

Dec 25, 2019

| Rajat Mitra
How The West Was Lost

A brilliantly researched history shows how the NWFP was delivered to Pakistan through British chicanery and Congress’s confused bungling

Oct 02, 2019

| Shakti Sinha
In Search Of A Lost Home: Sindhis In India Are Struggling To Save Their Language

Having lost their land of origin, saving their language is proving tough for Sindhis in India

Sep 05, 2018

| Arshia Dhar
A Decade On A 70mm Screen

The ’50s wasn’t a placid pool of idealism. In grappling with the Partition and forging a new polity, it fashioned modern India. This wide-angle view serves it well.

Nov 10, 2017

| Sunil Menon Sunil Menon
A Decade On A 70mm Screen

The ’50s wasn’t a placid pool of idealism. In grappling with the Partition and forging a new polity, it fashioned modern India. This wide-angle view serves it well.

Nov 10, 2017

| Sunil Menon Sunil Menon
Remember The Road Taken

There is a new surge in the blood-soaked period we call Partition. A new novel plays to stereotypes, but captures the confused terror and panic well.

Jul 27, 2017

| Kishwar Desai
Morning Tea At Mughalsarai

The story of the Indian railways is braided with that of modernity itself. Its immense socio-cultural importance is superbly laid out in this book.

Jul 21, 2017

| Vinoo Mathur

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Nehru Solely Responsible For Partition. Godse Chose Wrong Target: RSS Mouthpiece In Kerala

Oct 25, 2014
Border Anthems

Aug 24, 2014
India 1947: Rare Colour Footage

Aug 15, 2014
Seek And Ye Shall Find...

Nov 13, 2013
15 August

Aug 14, 2012
Midnight's Problem Child

Aug 15, 2011
August 15

Aug 15, 2011
What If Jinnah Had Won?

Ashutosh Varshney in the Indian Express examines the counter-factual and the claims of Nehru's...

Sep 15, 2009
If Partition Had Not Happened

Jaithirth Rao in the Indian Express: It has been wrongly argued by some that Nehru and Patel favoured...

Sep 01, 2009
Mirror Images: BJP & Muslim League

Rohit De in the Indian Express: The fatal obsession of BJP leaders with Mohammed Ali Jinnah is...

Aug 29, 2009

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