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Coalition governments have shown greater allegiance to the constitutional promise than super-majority governments

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“At the stroke of the midnight hour,” India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said, “when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.”

Since its independence in 1947, India has transformed from a poverty-stricken nation into one of the world's fastest-growing economies

Ms Marvel is one example of how South Asian creatives are bringing Indian partition to popular culture. Here are others.

With only paper champions defending the idea of India, the party must self-reflect critically to fathom its predicament

In 1947, the United Kingdom was exhausted. World War II had ravaged its military and economy, and anti-colonial movements had begun to challenge empires. Within the Indian subcontinent, the U.K. faced two powerful, seemingly irreconcilable nationalist movements: one calling for the creation of Pakistan, a homeland for the Muslims of…

Lord Mountbatten’s division of India into two countries was a disaster in which a million died. Using newly colourised archive footage, this documentary explores those brutal events

At 75, the country must be judged by the extent to which it has advanced human development