Radcliffe Line

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The Radcliffe Line established the border between India and the new state of Pakistan in 1947 when India was divided.

It is named after the British lawyer Cyril Radcliffe .

The line separated today's Republic of India (a predominantly Hindu , secular state) in two places from Pakistan (predominantly Islamic population), namely in the northwest ( Punjab ) and in the northeast ( Bengal ), where what was then East Pakistan and today's Bangladesh arose.

literature

• Lucy Chester: The 1947 Partition: Drawing the Indo-Pakistani Boundary . In: American Diplomacy, February 2002.