Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964 · THE MAP IN FEB 1948

Map of India in February 1948

Burma & Ceylon go free

India in February 1948: Burma & Ceylon go free. Since October 1947, 2 territories changed status on this map: Burma (annexed 1826–86; separated from India 1937) and Ceylon (mod. Sri Lanka).

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Map of India in February 1948: Burma & Ceylon go free. Colours show Self-rule / independent, Pakistan (from Aug 1947). — FEB 1948 · INDIAN INDEPENDENCE & PARTITION, 1857–1964

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1: dated historical polity records · National Archives of India: Abhilekh Patal historical records portal · Natural Earth v5.1.2: complete country reference geometry · Natural Earth: administrative reference units · UK National Archives: the Partition of British India · Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908): Indian Empire political plate

Source details

Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Reviewed record selection; East/West Pakistan selected as complete components; source dates and identities retained.
National Archives of India; contextual historical records, not a boundary survey. Historical factual reference; no source prose reproduced
Natural Earth. Public domain
Natural Earth. Public domain · Full components retained and dissolved into explicitly dated historical groups; no source-coordinate simplification.
UK National Archives; award and independence context, not modern boundary geometry. Historical factual reference; no source prose reproduced
J. G. Bartholomew / Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1908; scan Fowler & Fowler. Public domain · Native-resolution colour-boundary extraction; printed graticule registration; printed label holes removed, territorial enclaves retained. 1908 geography is explicitly a nearby-date proxy in earlier chapters.

Partition and Kashmir lines use the closest downloadable successor boundary references. Later river and enclave changes, and the 1972 LoC adjustments, are not represented as exact 1947/1949 surveys.

proxy: 1947 award; modern same-border reference · proxy: Contemporary regional reference · proxy: Historical enclave, source-vintage outline · proxy: Modern same-enclave reference · proxy: Natural Earth v5.1.2 · proxy: Sikkim protectorate, contemporary same-unit outline · reconstruction: Event-specific regional reporting units; source-vintage geography · trace: 1908 printed plate; explicit earlier-date proxy when bound to earlier chapters · vector: 1890–2023 · vector: 1947–1975 · vector: 1948–1949 · vector: 1948–1952 · vector: 1948–1962 · vector: 1948–1968 · vector: 1948–1986

Layer records and reconstruction methods

What changes on the map

Burma (annexed 1826–86; separated from India 1937)	Crown colonies · Burma after 1937 → Self-rule / independent
Ceylon (mod. Sri Lanka)	Crown colonies · Burma after 1937 → Self-rule / independent

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