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Although much has been written on the controversy of the Radcliffe Award, comparatively few historians have seriously investigated the process of fashioning the boundary lines in the context of the intensity of the Partition violence and its resulting mass migrations. This study drawing upon an array of original sources argues that the tragedy in the wake of division of Punjab were not so much the outcome of redrawing of a political map itself, but the process—the manner and speed—in which the Partition was accomplished and the way in which the borderline was mapped up. The key factor was tight timeframe and it was a countdown to chaos. Preserving international reputation for the appearance of a dignified transfer of power, by retaining India and Pakistan within the British Commonwealth after end of the empire, consumed most of the last Viceroy’s time and everything attended upon that priority. This study also argues the holding back of the award was to evade the British responsibility for dealing with the rapidly deteriorating law and order situation and to shift the burden of onus onto the two new dominions. This piece aims to restore the ‘human dimension’ of the well-researched story of the ‘high politics’ of the transfer of power.
Ilyas Chattha. (2016) Countdown to Chaos: Urgency of Mapping up the Punjab Borderlines and Partition Violence and Mass Migrations, Journal of the Punjab University Historical Society, Volume 29, Issue 2.
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