India–Pakistan border: The India–Pakistan border is officially called the Radcliffe Line, named after Sir Cyril Radcliffe, the British lawyer who demarcated it in 1947 during the partition of British ...

Because it is the Radcliffe Line, arguably the most unscientific international boundary ever drawn on a map, that led to the Partition of India, millions of deaths, starvation, massacres, rapes, and ...

With the end of British colonial rule in 1947, the Indian subcontinent was divided into two nations, majority-Hindu India and majority-Muslim Pakistan. But simmering secular tensions and a hastily ...