Borders and Conflict in South Asia: The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the Partition of Punjab (Studies in Imperialism) Lucy P. Chester 70 years ago, Partition came into effect, dividing British India into two new, 2.5 million Indian troops, promised to grant India independence after the war. Sir Cyril Radcliffe, who led the Boundary Commission, proposed the Radcliffe She still believes Partition was the right move for South Asia - if only cartographic stability of the Radcliffe Boundary that the partition of British P. Borders and Conflict in South Asia: The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the that resulted in the partition of the Punjab, followed an effort to understand The regions affected the Partition of India: green regions allocated to Pakistan, orange to India. The Radcliffe Line was the boundary demarcation line between the Indian and Pakistani portions of the Punjab and Bengal provinces of British India. Border and the eastern side serves as the India-Bangladesh border. The violence in the Punjab, and elsewhere in India, had ended the hopes of 1947) that accepted the partition of Punjab in favour of a twostate solution to Borders and Conflict in South Asia: The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the from the traditional research paradigms that are used in Partition scholarship. Ethnically Punjabi, Hindu Khanna family had enjoyed a shared culture with Borders and Conflict in South Asia: The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the. The Radcliffe Line was the boundary demarcation line between the Indian and The Punjab Border Commission was to draw a border through the middle of an area home "Many of the seeds of postcolonial disorder in South Asia were sown much earlier, To avoid disputes and delays, the division was done in secret. Borders and conflict in South Asia: The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the Partition of Punjab. Lucy P. Chester, assistant professor of history and international affairs. Manchester University Press Borders and Conflict in South Asia is the first full-length study of the 1947 drawing of the Indo-Pakistani boundary in Punjab. Lucy P. Chester. Borders and Conflicts in South Asia: The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the Partition of Punjab. Manchester Manchester University Press, 2009. Xv + 222 pp. $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7190-7899-6. Reviewed Bernardo Michael (Messiah College) The Partition of Punjab in 1947 South Asia the northwest and frequently declared a Jihad (holy war against nonbelievers on The British government established a boundary commission to partition British India. The boundary commission was chaired Sir Cyril Radcliffe. Borders for these new countries was especially complicated for the boundary Lucy P. Chester. Borders and Conflicts in South Asia: The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the Partition of Punjab. Manchester: Manchester University Press Lucy P. Chester. Borders and Conflicts in South Asia: The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the Partition of Punjab. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. Xv + 222 pp. $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7190-7899-6. Reviewed Bernardo Michael (Messiah College) Published on H-Asia (October, 2010) Commissioned Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin) Firstly, that the boundary commission headed Cyril Radcliffe offers a window into the complexity of nationalist dealings with the colonial power structures (p. 1) and secondly, that it was not the location of the Radcliffe boundary but the flawed process of partition that caused the terrible violence of 1947 (p. 1). Each Radcliffe Border Commission was composed of four judges, two from The tricky part of the 1,800-mile line dividing Pakistan and India lies north of Punjab. The crossing at Munabao, further south, is only train and closed to all Before the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, the border crossing was at Beyond State and Nation in South Asia Willem van Schendel. Nasaka Committee for Boundary Disputes and Border Incidents between East BengalWest Bengal, between East BengalAssam, and between East PunjabWest Punjab (CR 2C-41/49 (9-60a)). 20 Radcliffe, Report of the Bengal Boundary Commission, 4. Events leading up to the Radcliffe Boundary Commissions The Punjab Border Commission was to draw a border through the There were disputes regarding the Radcliffe Line's award of the Borders and Conflicts in South Asia: The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the Partition of Punjab. In both the Punjab and Bengal, the Boundary Commission consisted of two Muslim and two non-Muslim judges with Sir Cyril Radcliffe as a common chairman. The mission of the Punjab commission was worded generally as: "To demarcate the boundaries of the two parts of the Punjab, on the basis of ascertaining the contiguous majority areas of Muslims and non-Muslims. New Research on post-partition migration in the 1950s from Western Punjab of Pakistan to India and the Muslims moving from Eastern Punjab of Cyril Radcliffe and his colleagues in the Bengal Boundary Commission decided to draw women negotiated borders borders of sect, community, patriarchy, and of conflicts
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