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 ...

In August 1947, the British decided to end their 200-year long rule in the Indian subcontinent and to divide it into two separate nations, Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India.

whose continental crust forms the Indian subcontinent. It is the seventh-largest country in the world and has a land frontier of 15,106.7 km and a coastline of 7,516.6 km.