As British rule in Asia ended, the emergence of new borders and ethnic enclaves dispossessed millions.

The 1947 Partition of British India is memorialized as one of the bloodiest and largest migrations in human history. It is estimated that close to 15 million people were uprooted and that between ...

Editor’s note: At midnight on Aug. 14, 1947, India achieved independence from British colonial rule and Pakistan was created as a separate homeland for Muslims. More than 200 years of British rule had ...

Two elderly men sit at a table; a candle flickers next to a pot of coffee and a board game. With each roll of the dice they share memories from childhood, shaped by the partition of British India in ...

In 1947, Britain’s hasty withdrawal from India unleashed chaos, violence, and death. The partition of India split the subcontinent along religious lines, displacing 15 million people and killing up to ...

Aug. 15 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1914, a U.S. ship sailed from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, officially opening the Panama Canal. In 1935, humorist Will Rogers and pilot Wiley Post ...

A small girl is woken in the night. The family is to travel immediately from their idyllic home near Lahore, in what is current-day Pakistan, to India. Along the way she sees overturned bullock carts, ...