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The Radcliffe Line was the boundary demarcated by the two boundary commissions for the provinces of Punjab and Bengal during the Partition of India.It is named after Cyril Radcliffe, who, as the joint chairman of the two boundary commissions, had the ultimate responsibility to equitably divide 175,000 square miles (450,000 km 2) of territory with 88 million people.
Homo erectus lived on the Pothohar Plateau, in upper Punjab, Pakistan along the Soan River (nearby modern-day Rawalpindi) during the Pleistocene Epoch. Soanian sites are found in the Sivalik region across what are now India, Pakistan and Nepal. [22] The Soanian culture was a prehistoric technological culture from the Siwalik Hills.
A map of the Punjab region c. 1947 showing the different doabs. People of the Majha region are given the demonym "Mājhī" or "Majhail". Most inhabitants of the region speak the Majhi dialect, which is the basis of the standard register of the Punjabi language in Indian Punjab. [4] The most populous city in the area is Lahore on the Pakistani ...
The India–Pakistan, Indo–Pakistani is the international boundary that separates the nations of the Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.At its northern end is the Line of Control, which separates Indian-administered Kashmir from Pakistani-administered Kashmir; and at its southern end is Sir Creek, a tidal estuary in the Rann of Kutch between the Indian state of Gujarat ...
The partition of India in 1947 was the division of British India [c] into two independent dominion states, the Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan. [3] The Union of India is today the Republic of India and the Dominion of Pakistan, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan , and the People's Republic of Bangladesh .
[1]: 54 In 1858, the Punjab, along with the rest of British India, came under the rule of the British Crown. Following the Indian mutiny, Punjab became a lieutenant-governor's province under the Bengal Presidency. [1]: 54 After the Government of India Act of 1919, Punjab was turned into a governor's province.
A map of the distribution of native Punjabi speakers in India and Pakistan. With effect from 1 November 1966, there was yet another reorganisation, this time on linguistic lines, when the state of Punjab as constituted in 1956 was divided into three: the mostly Hindi-speaking part became the present-day Indian state of Haryana and the mostly Punjabi-speaking part became the present-day Punjab ...
Refer to this map as:— 70-MILE MAP INDIA SECOND EDITION; Published under the direction of Brigadier G. F. Heaney, C. B. E., Surveyor General of India, 1947. PRINTED AT THE SURVEY OF INDIA OFFICES (PLO). Note: The border with Pakistan is that of Radcliffe Line. The border with Chine in western and middle sectors is undefined (broad colour wash)