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The Partition of India: How a Border Drawn in 5 Weeks Displaced 14 Million People
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- Cyril Radcliffe had never visited India before drawing the boundary; completed in 5 weeks, released on Independence Day — maximized chaos - 14 million displaced, 200,000–2 million killed in 73 days — largest forced migration in recorded history - Mountbatten moved independence up by 10 months (June 1948 → August 1947) without corresponding security planning - Punjab and Bengal had no clean demographic line — villages split families, farms split between nations, wells became border disputes
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