Click here for a present-day map of the Indian subcontinent. India charged across the equator at rates of up to 15 cm/year, in the process closing an ocean named Tethys that had separated ...

The subcontinent achieved independence in 1947. Yet the realisation of a long-standing dream came bundled with the horrors and lasting trauma of partition (see map 6). British India was divided ...

More than two centuries ago, English geographer James Rennell printed a map that showed the course of the Ganges from ...

With the end of British colonial rule in 1947, the Indian subcontinent was divided into two nations, majority-Hindu India and majority-Muslim Pakistan. But simmering secular tensions and a hastily ...

Toggle through the displayed options on the graphic below and draw lines on the map based on how you think ... Al Jazeera looks at how the Indian subcontinent was divided by the British in 1947 ...