15th August India Independence Day: Partition of India was an expedited process that resulted in significant turmoil. Lord Mountbatten had ...

"It was a brave decision to step into the middle of a carnage and it was certainly well thought out if not an audacious plan. The ripple ef...

Each envelope is addressed to Mahatma Gandhi and is the only surviving record of an exchange he had with Lord Louis Mountbatten.

Many of our republic’s founders are national icons. But beyond the inner circle, there were hundreds of others.

The proposed rally is the part of the BJP's ongoing nationwide campaign on the abrogation of special status of Jammu and Kashmir.

South India has a few vital links to Kashmir’s modern history, and by extension, to its destiny.

Lord Mountbatten was the first person to raise the issue of the future of the state of Jammu and Kashmir with Maharaja Hari Singh once the ...

The genesis of the state's uneasy ties with the Union of India lies in the turbulent post-partition months.

Attlee told Ambassador Douglas he wanted elected representatives from Punjab and Bengal to decide which of the two major dominions these pr...

Bhimrao Ambedkar, Kanhaiyalal Munshi and Minoo Masani were all prolific writers and firm advocates of a Uniform Civil Code as a fundamental...

Nedou’s hotel, built in the late 19th century, is home to all the visiting British dignitaries, businessmen and maharajas of princely state...

Pakistan Army had planned a Kargil-type military operation much before the summer of 1999 when Benazir Bhutto was the PM but she opposed it...

Chidambaram quoted excerpts from Azad's book to say that Sardar Patel had agreed to the idea of division of the country before Nehru and Ga...

Narendra Modi displayed great alacrity in banning Jaswant Singh's Jinnah book in Gujarat.

The international success of feel-good drama "Slumdog Millionaire" has inspired many British filmmakers to explore India and Bollywood as t...