Seventy years after one of the most deadly and disruptive political cataclysms of modern times, the Partition Museum has opened in the Indian city of Amritsar. It is the first cultural institution ...

Partnership between Amritsar’s Partion Museum and Manchester Museum will be announced during the forthcoming visit of the mayor of Greater Manchester as part of the Manchester-India partnership The ...

AMRITSAR, (IANS) – No matter how many times one visits the Partition Museum in Amritsar, the ‘Gallery of Hope’ always makes you stand still. Amid the horror of 1947, this life-affirming space asserts ...

AMRITSAR, India (AP) - In the 70 years since India and Pakistan were created from the former British Empire, there has never been a venue focused on the stories and memorabilia of those who survived ...

Refugees wait for water at a camp in Delhi. The partition of India put millions on the move. Columbia University/Wikimedia Commons In 1947, after years of anti-colonial resistance, Britain finally ...

Reporting from Amritsar, India — Amolak Swani’s knobby fingers gripped a cane as she shuffled into the room, her daughter holding her at the elbow. She settled into a chair with a sigh and began ...

The Partition Museum is the first of its kind, dedicated to the memory of the Partition of India in 1947 — its victims, its survivors and its lasting legacy. The Government of Punjab, India, has ...

Amritsar, meaning 'pool of nectar', is a cultural hub with the Golden Temple. The Golden Temple is a major attraction. Jallianwala Bagh marks a tragic historical event. The Partition Museum preserves ...

A rusted pocket watch at the Partition Museum symbolizes how ordinary objects preserve extraordinary memories of 1947’s violence. Historians warn that political rewriting of textbooks risks erasing ...

Sitting in her Karachi home, Jamshed Jahan Ara looks straight into the camera as she explains in a trembling voice how her family fled India during Partition in 1947. Just six years old when she ...