AFCAT II 2018 Solved Paper

(a) The Radcliffe Line was the boundary demarcation linebetween the Indian and Pakistani portions of thePunjab and Bengal provinces of British India. It wasnamed after its architect. Sir Cyril Radcliffe, who, asthe joint chairman of the two boundary commissionsfor the two provinces, received the responsibility toequitably divide 175,000 square miles (450,000 km2)of territory with 88 million people.