How India’s partition in 1947 led to the strife over Kashmir today. Fears of an all-out conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have abated with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, but the ...

Work of great scope and verve draws on a range of superb memoirs and testimonies, covering much more than India and Pakistan ...

1965 — The rivals fight their second war over Kashmir. Thousands are killed in inconclusive fighting before a ceasefire is brokered by the Soviet Union and the United States.Negotiations in ...

During World War II, US President Franklin Roosevelt, an avowed anti-imperialist, had staunchly supported India’s ...

1949 — A UN-brokered ceasefire line leaves Kashmir divided between India and Pakistan, with the promise of a U.N.-sponsored vote that would enable the region's people to decide whether to be ...

The government wants to digitize land records in Jammu and Kashmir. The software is called WebHALRIS. It was originally built ...

If you flip through the old revenue records of Jammu and Kashmir, you'll come across codes like LB6 and S432. These are obscure labels, that to most people mean little. Yet these cryptic entries ...

It is widely considered the deadliest partitioning of a nation in contemporary history. At the time of partition, Kashmir was a Muslim-majority princely state, and its Hindu Maharaja Hari Singh ...

Here’s what to know about the history of tensions. 1947 - Partition and independence from the British Empire Clashes over Kashmir between India and Pakistan are as old as the countries themselves.

But his hand was forced when, after Partition, Muslims in northwest Kashmir, backed by a Pakistani tribal army, rose up against the Hindu population and massacred them.

After partition of the subcontinent in 1947 followingindependence from British rule, Kashmir was expected to becomepart of Pakistan, as with other Muslim-majority regions.