August 15, 2022 marked the 75th anniversary of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent and the emergence of India and Pakistan as independent nation-states. Engineered by the British Raj, the Indian National Congress, and the Muslim League, it ended the…
The Counter-Memory Project, a non-profit organization, has launched the Online Partition Museum, a virtual museum of art dedicated to memorializing and raising awareness about the partitions of the Indian subcontinent through innovative visual art exhibitions. Partitions of Indian Subcontinent The Indian…
Kashmir, the northernmost region of the Indian subcontinent, is a territory with a rich cultural heritage and a troubled political history. India, Pakistan, and China had been fighting wars over Kashmir since 1947. This has resulted in the balkanization of…
The new official border was called the Radcliffe Line, created in 1947 by a British barrister, Sir Cyril Radcliffe. The two parts of Pakistan were separated by over 2000 kilometers of Indian landmass, and cultural and linguistic differences. By 1971,…
The area of Sylhet was split between East Pakistan and Assam through the Sylhet Referendum in 1947.
The province of Bengal was partitioned twice by the Britishers, the first time in 1905, but it was reunified in 1911. And the second time in 1947, in which West Bengal remained with India, and East Bengal became East Pakistan,…
The British partitioned Burma as it was known then or Myanmar as it is known now, through the Government of India Act of 1935. On 1 April 1937, Burma became a separately administered colony of Great Britain, and on 4…
The Online Partition Museum is a virtual museum of art, that seeks to raise awareness about the Partitions of the Indian subcontinent through innovative visual art exhibitions.
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