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How the Radcliffe Line was drawn in weeks

  • August 17, 1947 CE – The Radcliffe Line Separates India from Pakistan
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    5 weeks. One lawyer. A whole subcontinent 🗺️ Radcliffe had never been to India, yet had to draw the border fast.
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    The rules were broad, not precise ⚖️ The commissions had to separate Muslim and non-Muslim majority areas, while also considering "other factors" like roads, water, and irrigation.
  • British Viceroy Lord Louis Mountbatten meeting with Nehru, Jinnah and others to plan the partition of 1947.
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    Politics shaped the line too 🔥 Sources describe pressure from leaders and last-minute influence around places like Gurdaspur and Ferozepur.
  • A page from The Sphere, with the title ’The Two-Way Exodus in the Punjab’ in the center. A map of the border between India and Pakistan features at the top. Two photographs feature at the bottom, showing the view of a burning town from a plane, and a group of Sikh men holding weapons. Captions feature beneath the map and photographs, and two small columns of text are on either side of the title.
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    Borders are made by people, not destiny 💡 And they still shape family memory today. Save this post 🔖 What Partition story lives in your family?

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