In 1947, one of the largest movements of population in human history was caused by two lines, drawn on a map, by a British civil servant who didn’t like the heat and wanted to go home.
In the chaos that followed the partition of India, over one million people died – and another two million were never accounted for. This is the story of how British bureaucracy, amid India’s drive for independence, led to a human disaster on a scale that’s been likened to the Holocaust.
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