Rather than remaining trapped in reactive cycles with Pakistan, India must adopt strategic insulation and turn its attention ...

With the end of British colonial rule in 1947, the Indian subcontinent was divided into two nations, majority-Hindu India and majority-Muslim Pakistan. But simmering secular tensions and a hastily ...

Noida was part of the Mughal empire for centuries. It’s where the British fought the Marathas. And it was Bhagat Singh’s ...

Sam Dalrymple’s Shattered Lands is an imperious view of the British Raj's collapse, redeemed by its forgotten stories of ...

Pakistan is often called a failed state. At other points, it has been called a rogue state or client state. That, of course, refers not to the country in general but to its army-centred ruling elite, ...

Pakistan has denied involvement in the 22 April killings and described the suspension of the Treaty as an “act of war”. India retaliated with bombing raids on suspected militant training camps in ...

The resulting Radcliffe Line partitioned Punjab in the west and Bengal in the east, leading to the birth of the two nations—Pakistan and India—on August 14 and 15, 1947, respectively.

After the Second World War in 1945, when the British decided to leave India and divide it into two independent states India and Pakistan, the primary principle behind the partition of India was the ...

NEW DELHI — Even during the darkest moments of India and Pakistan’s volatile history — through wars, terrorist attacks and diplomatic breakdowns — artists and activists tried to keep the ...

The magnitude of the operation took Pakistan's leadership by surprise, that even the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, acknowledged that the Nur Khan airbase was attacked by India.

A day after India expelled a Pakistan High Commission staffer for links to a spying case, Pakistan has expelled an Indian High Commission staffer in Islamabad. Meanwhile, President Murmu today ...

In this division of British India, the diverse regions of Jammu and Kashmir could accede to either country. After failing to gain independence, Kashmir monarch Maharaja Hari Singh’s decision to join ...