India’s partition

Half a Legacy

Pramod Kapoor

Partition was a division of not just land but a shared civilisation down to its files, flags, furniture and even postage stamps

Anomaly at Midnight

MJ Akbar

Pakistan was created by a tortured argument which diminished a universal faith, Islam, into parochial nationalism. Within a decade, Pakistan had degenerated into a 'jelly state'

A History of Healing

Madhavankutty Pillai

With over 12,000 oral histories, the 1947 partition archive is using storytelling to mend the scars of one of the most traumatic episodes that the subcontinent experienced

The Bengal Files

Swapan Dasgupta

Maybe, Vivek Agnihotri’s new film will showcase what they experienced and inform today’s Bengalis why it shouldn’t happen again

The Many Partitions

Bhavya Dore

Sam Dalrymple records how the Indian empire was unmade. The author in conversation with

Pakistan’s Formula for Self-Destruction

Siddharth Singh

The two-nation theory has been driving the country’s instability from Bangladesh to Balochistan

A Churchill-Jinnah Pact?

Kishan S Rana

The archives hold evidence of longstanding clandestine collaboration between the two with the aim of dividing India

The Survivors

Chittajit Mitra

Thirty stories that capture the essence of Punjabiyat

Critical Mass of Urdu Speakers

Swapan Dasgupta

Urdu’s importance has been declining steadily since a mass of Urdu speakers and writers migrated to Pakistan from northern India and the erstwhile Hyderabad state after Partition