Every year, India celebrates Independence Day on 15th August, Islamic republic of Pakistan on 14th August, so the common myth among people is that firstly, the partition of Hindustan took place and then both the countries got freedom.
In fact, everything that happened in 1947 was totally opposite.
1) Hindustan first attained freedom nearly 150 years of British rule and two days after, the partition took place formed two countries. It’s a rarely known fact that the person who was behind India’s partition had never seen the country. He was not only cartographer but also Barrister.
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2) India and Pakistan achieved independence on 15th and 14th August respectively, but till Aug 17, there was no announcement on the borders of two countries.
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3) The man who set the boundary lines for India and Pakistan was Cyril John Radcliffe, the British lawyer and Law Lord Radcliffe was given the task of drawing the borders for the new national of Pakistan and India, and its rare fact to know that he never ever saw country “Hindustan” before.
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4) On Aug 17, 1947, the Radcliffe line was formally declared as the boundary between India and Pakistan, two days following the Partition of India.
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5) India and Pakistan Equitably divide 4, 50,000 km SQ of territory with 88 million people. The Estimated loss of life during the partition of India is one million for the Punjabi alone, the loss of life is estimated somewhere between 500,000-800,000 and 10 million people were forced to flee for their lives.
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6) Lord Radcliffe had no complete information about the geography of India. On the Basis of maps, castes and religions, Radcliffe divided the two nations. And prior to Partition, Radcliffe had never been to India.
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7) On July 8, 1947, he was told about task he has to accomplish when he reached India. British Government gave him only 5 weeks to complete the daunting task. Radcliffe had finalized new maps between Aug 9 to Aug 14, but it was delayed due to some controversy.
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8) The two tehsils of Punjab‘s Gurdaspur were included in Pakistan part, as majority of people were Muslims. In fact, those Ahmadi populations are never considered as Muslims in Pakistan.
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9) On the day of Partition, people of Bengal’s Muslim dominated districts- Murshidabad and Malda had put Pakistani flags on their Houses, but they later came to know that were part of India.
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10) Chittagong , with only 2 percent Muslim population went to Pakistan. It was Muhammad Ali Jinnah who wanted partition for his own sake and responsible for massacre of 80,000 peoples. Britishers went off and kept fire burning between two nations loss from both side still now in from of money is billions of dollars and millions of bodies.
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