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This episode explores the Radcliffe Line, a boundary that divided British India into India and Pakistan in 1947. The line, named after Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer who had never been to India before, was drawn hastily and with little understanding of the region's complex demographics and cultural landscape.
This episode explores the Radcliffe Line, a boundary that divided British India into India and Pakistan in 1947. The line, named after Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer who had never been to India before, was drawn hastily and with little understanding of the region's complex demographics and cultural landscape.