Thursday, August 17, 2017
How were the India-Pakistan partition borders drawn? | India-Pakistan Partition
In July 1947, about five weeks before the British were scheduled to depart the Indian subcontinent, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer, was commissioned to draw the borders that would divide British India into two countries – Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India. This was Radcliffe’s first-ever trip to India. He was asked to base his lines on the population of Muslims and 
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