India’s partition

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

Tricoloured Memories

Vineetha Mokkil

Oral histories that conjure up the varied experiences of 1947

Entwined Lives

Urvashi Bahuguna

Amit Majmudar’s new book fictionalises a comparative study of Gandhi and Jinnah

Was There Ever a Golden Age?

Geeta Doctor

An era when Hindus and Muslims shared a bond

How Jinnah Divided Muslims

MJ Akbar

An error and a tragedy

In Search of the Real Savarkar

Vikram Sampath

The place of Muslims in his Hindu Rashtra

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