May 4, 2024

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Infographic: How were India-Pakistan partition borders drawn?

Al-Jazeera

 

Seventy-five years ago, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer, was commissioned to draw the borders that would divide British-ruled India into two new, independent nations: Hindu-majority India and mainly Muslim Pakistan.

He had just five weeks to do so despite having never travelled to India, which had been under British rule for 200 years.

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