Durand, Radcliffe and MacMohan Line Special Notes (in Hindi)

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R K Shukla

The biggest onslaught on the concept of United India came in the form of Radcliff Line, which divided British India in two independent countries India and Pakistan in 1947. It was named after its architect, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, who, as chairman of the Border Commissions, was charged with equitably dividing 175,000 square miles of territory with 88 million people. The line separates India and Pakistan from the run of Kutch in  Gujarat till internation border in Jammu in Jammu & Kashmir. MacMohan Line marks the border between India and China. Though China never accepts the line as it was drawn in 1914 between British India and Tibet which was an independent state then under Simla Accord. It is the effective boundary between China and India, although its legal status is disputed by the Chinese government.The Durand Line is the 2,430-kilometre International border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Sir Mortimer Durand had drawn this line in 1893 between Afghanistan and then British India, which later got divided into two countries India and Pakistan in 1947.