Borders and Conflict in South Asia: The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the Partition of Punjab
By (Author) Lucy Chester
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
2nd December 2013
United Kingdom
Paperback
252
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Borders and conflict in South Asia is the first full-length study of the 1947 drawing of the Indo-Pakistani boundary in Punjab. Using the Radcliffe commission as a window onto the decolonisation and independence of India and Pakistan, and examining the competing interests - both internal and international - that influenced the actions of the variou
Lucy P. Chester is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of Colorado at Boulder