Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964 · THE MAP IN MAR 1947

Map of India in March 1947

The Punjab burns

India in March 1947: The Punjab burns. The map shows who held what: British India — direct rule, Crown colonies · Burma after 1937, Self-rule / independent.

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Map of India in March 1947: The Punjab burns. Colours show British India — direct rule, Crown colonies · Burma after 1937, Self-rule / independent. — MAR 1947 · 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 · 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.
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.

The treaty/paramountcy patchwork provides a political reference. Hatches for famine, violence and rebellion locate affected reporting regions rather than areas of uniform territorial possession.

proxy: Contemporary regional reference · proxy: Historical enclave, source-vintage outline · proxy: Modern same-enclave reference · proxy: Natural Earth v5.1.2 · reconstruction: 1908 printed patchwork with coastal registration · reconstruction: Event-specific regional reporting units; source-vintage geography · vector: 1890–2023 · vector: 1947–1947 · vector: 1947–1975

Layer records and reconstruction methods

On the ground

The Punjab borderland, 1947 — partition’s worst ground lay on both sides of the Radcliffe line

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