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RADCLIFFE BOUNDARY COMMISSION
79 years ago, a man who had never visited India & knew little about its complex landscape drew a line that divided India and PakistanRadcliffe Line 1947: In 1947, British lawyer Sir Cyril Radcliffe chaired the boundary commissions that demarcated the Radcliffe Line, divid...- Watch the fragile corridor: Bangladesh's fluid political landscape necessitates vigilance in the Chicken’s NeckSir Cyril Radcliffe's hasty partition of India created the Siliguri Corridor, a vital but narrow land bridge connecting India to its northe...
- When a ‘neutral umpire’ almost gave Lahore to India15th August India Independence Day: Partition of India was an expedited process that resulted in significant turmoil. Lord Mountbatten had ...
- Chakmas of Chittagong Hills: 'Indians' on Aug 15, Pakistanis two days later and 'rebels' by Aug 19On August 15, 1947, Chakmas, Tripuris and other tribals, mostly Buddhist, living in the over 13,000 square kilometers of hills and dales in...
- 'Begum Jaan' review: Begum is spirited but doesn't serve up soul curryIt’s a good period and story to revisit because even 70-years after the partition, anything around it still piques interest.
- This top BJP ideologue predicted 56 years back that Pakistan would plan UriDeendayal also wrote that the defence of borders depends not only on armed personnel but also determination of people in border areas.
- Arbitrarily drawn up borders from the Raj era turned South Asia into a hotbed of conflictsArbitrary borders drawn by the British Empire on maps in South Asia during their two centuries of colonisation have divided communities, un...
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