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Aug 15, 2021 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
THE RADCLIFFE LINE

#75years ago a British lawyer named Cyril Radcliffe was asked by Louis Mountbatten, the former viceroy of India, to divide British-ruled India into the new independent nations of India, Pakistan & East Pakistan (Bangladesh). He had five weeks to do this. The lines Radcliffe drew across India sparked a tragedy that still poisons ties between India and Pakistan today.

Approximately twelve million people crossed the Radcliffe line to find a new home with an estimated one million killed by sectarianism and religious violence.