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Elaborate partition of Indian subcontinent and international migration in detail.

  • UPSC 2026
  • Population and Settlement Geography

The Partition of 15 August 1947 did less to set people moving than to convert an internal migration field into an international one overnight. The Radcliffe Line cut two densely settled, religiously mixed provinces - Punjab and Bengal - and every customary short move across them became an international crossing.

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