(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Surupa Gupta, University of Mary Washington (THE CONVERSATION) India and Pakistan ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India and Pakistan have agreed to a ceasefire following U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades. The ceasefire deal ...

Communications blackout and deadly clashes grip the region as protesters present 38 demands to the government.

"The entire Bharat is one. But the room in our home where I lay my table, chair, and clothing, has been usurped by someone," ...

British rule over the Indian subcontinent ended in 1947, resulting in the birth of an independent India and the new nation of Pakistan. The Indian state was secular and had a Hindu majority. Pakistan, ...

When you get into discussions about the Middle East with certain people, you start hearing that the great mistake was the partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. If ...

(THE CONVERSATION) India and Pakistan inherited the same economic legacy of underinvestment and neglect from Britain when they became independent states following the Partition on Aug. 15, 1947. Their ...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, viceroy of India, discusses Britain's partition plan with Hindu and Muslim leaders in the summer of 1947. AP Photo/Max Desfor For both nations, independence almost immediately ...