The Partition of India was the partition of the British Indian Empire which led to the creation, on August 14, 1947 and August 15, 1947, respectively, of the sovereign states of ...

The Partition of India "A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long ...

The Partition of India . The partition of India is a signal event in world history, not merely in the history of the Indian subcontinent.

Select Research Bibliography on the Partition of India Compiled by Vinay Lal, Department of History, UCLA . I: Official and Semi-Official Documents:

Ravinder Kaur maps the violence of partition from India to Iraq, exposing a flawed theory and practice

The Partition of Bengal in 1947, part of the Partition of India, was a partition that divided Bengal into the two separate entities of West Bengal belonging to India, and East ...

India's Partition. Transference of power from the British Crown to an India Government was not as smooth as most of us had dreamed for decades. Most citizens made one major ...

HarperCollins, 1997): 321-338, and Tan Tai Yong?s "?Sir Cyril Goes to India?: Partition, Boundary-Making and Disruptions in the Punjab," Punjab Studies 4:1 (1997): 1-20 also ...

Everything Orwell and how the major themes of his work, 1984, are reflected in the news stories and societal trends of today.

About a million people were left homeless. Since partition, the territory of Jammu and Kashmir has remained in dispute, with Pakistan and India both holding sectors.