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Radcliffe's Mapmakers: The Clerks Who Drew India's Border

Radcliffe's Mapmakers: The Clerks Who Drew India's Border

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We’ve talked about the violence, the refugees, and even Cyril Radcliffe himself. But we haven’t looked at the people who actually held the pencils: the British civil servants like Sir David Richardson and Henry Dunning, who spent five weeks mapping a border through villages they’d never visited. This episode examines the bureaucratic machinery behind the Radcliffe Line — the committees, the maps, and the devastatingly simple logic that divided communities along religious lines without regard for geography or history. We explore how these men worked under impossible pressure, relying on outdated census data and rudimentary maps to redraw South Asia overnight. From the Punjab Boundary Commission to the Bengal teams, we uncover the human cost of administrative efficiency and how a few dozen clerks became architects of chaos. #CyrilRadcliffe #RadcliffeLine #PartitionOfIndia #DavidRichardson #HenryDunning #PunjabBoundaryCommission #BengalBoundaryCommission #BritishEmpire #SouthAsianHistory #ColonialAdmin #1947 #BorderDispute #Mapmaking #IndianIndependence #CivilServants #FexingoHistory #HistoryPodcast #HistoricalMaps Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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