Indian independence · TURNING POINT ·
Radcliffe Line (1947)
On the Indian independence map as “Wagah — the line itself”
17 Aug 1947 — The Radcliffe award appeared two days after freedom. Between Lahore and Amritsar, its new border crossed the Grand Trunk Road. A customs post grew at the meeting of a pencil line drawn in five weeks and a thousand-year-old highway.
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- Partition of India (chapter 13 of Indian independence)
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