The History of India's Border

In 1948 Lord Mountbatten was appointed as the final Viceroy of India. He wanted to keep her united, but Mahatma Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah disagreed. So he asked an old friend in London for help drawing a border between two new countries. Sir Cyril Rakhtiv drew 1,700-mile line dividing Bengal from Punjab on one side; Islamic Republic of Pakistan on the other. Two million people died when they engaged each other in orgy of violence which left them both dead.