partition history

3 Partition stories for young readers

Here are three books on Partition that can be added to not only your child's but your own reading list.
21 October 2025, 13:45 PM

'Independence': A painfully poignant Partition story

Divakaruni has a message to send with this novel. To her, independence entails not just liberation or freedom from subjugation, it also means doing the right thing for oneself and for the people around us.
22 June 2023, 08:16 AM

75 years of Partition: A young boy's loss

I belong to a generation that was overtaken by the pestilence called Partition.
9 December 2022, 15:30 PM

Dhaka before and after Partition

Dhaka has gone through many ups and downs over the past few centuries.
2 December 2022, 15:00 PM

Partition 1947: Displaced Music: Partition through the senses

Songs give a voice to the timelessness of the body’s performative archive.
25 November 2022, 15:00 PM

75 years of Partition: How the Noakhali riots came to be

Communal tension brewing for years led to the violent riots the year before Partition.
18 November 2022, 15:00 PM

Partition 1947: The art of remembering

In our school textbooks, Partition was a minor detail in the climax of the rousing story of the Indian National Movement.
11 November 2022, 15:00 PM

Partition 1947: Lessons we need to un/learn

Narratives from the peripheries are needed to balance out the indocentrism of Partition Studies
28 October 2022, 20:00 PM

Partition 1947: The perennial shadow of communalism

Communal violence is not a recent phenomenon in this part of the world.
21 October 2022, 15:00 PM

‘Tailor-Made’ Partition: Saga of an Orchestrated Disaster

In 1947, “United India” got vivisected, in which Bengal experienced the divide along with Punjab.
14 October 2022, 18:30 PM

Partition 1947: The flow between two sides of a line

The reality of the communities that are yet to recover from the trauma of Partition.
7 October 2022, 16:00 PM