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Sir Cyril Radcliffe
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Sir Cyril Radcliffe

British colonial official
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Sir Cyril Radcliffe was a British lawyer tasked with drawing the boundary between India and Pakistan in 1947. He chaired two boundary commissions that created the Radcliffe Line. This demarcation was part of the Indian Independence Act, which led to the partition of British India into two independent dominions. The drawing of this border resulted in one of history's largest and most tragic mass migrations, with estimates of up to 2,000,000 people killed in communal violence.

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