The Bengal Partition of 1905 was a British colonial government decision to divide Bengal into East Bengal and Assam with a Muslim majority, and West Bengal with a Hindu majority due to administrative ...

Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of India’s partition will find former ambassador Bhaswati Mukherjee’s book, Bengal and its Partition, insightful. The writer traces the genesis of partition to ...

KOLKATA: When John Barla, BJP's Alipurduar Lok Sabha MP, last week made a controversial demand for a separate Union Territory carved out of Bengal's northern districts, little did he realise the storm ...

The West Bengal Heritage Commission has drawn up a proposal to set up a museum dedicated to the Partition of Bengal during the bifurcation of the country, that led to migration of millions of refugees ...

Riots in Maniktala; Muslim League's walk down Esplanade and the social segregation faced by refugees from East Bengal - it was a throwback to 1946 and the aftermath of the Partition for the audience ...

"The Bleeding Border - Stories of Bengal Partition" (Niyogi Books) is an anthology of 24 partition stories written by both prominent and lesser-known authors from West Bengal and Bangladesh. The ...

Revisiting Partition: Contestation, Narratives and Memories reflects on the experiences of the people whose lives changed forever after the Radcliffe Line was drawn, and on the ongoing influence of ...

Seventy-six years after the Partition of the Indian subcontinent, we are still a long way from understanding the complex ways in which this event affected the everyday lives of people and communities ...

At a time when Assam’s updated National Register of Citizens has sparked off protests in the north-eastern state and the ruling party at the Centre is mulling a citizenship amendment bill, parallel ...

KOLKATA: Twitterati on Tuesday heavily trolled West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar as he took to the microblogging site to post his picture with a caption, in which he referred to a table apparently ...