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RED CLIFF AWARD

● A COMMISSION WAS MADE BY THE BRITISH TO


DIVIDE THE SUB-CONTINENT INTO PAKISTAN
AND INDIA, HIS DECISION WAS THE FINAL AND
NOT CHANGEABLE.

● THE INCHARGE OF BRITAINS WAS MR SUPRYL


RADCLIFF.

● FROM MUSLIMS WERE 2 AND HINDUS WERE 2

● REACHED DELHI ON 8TH JULY 1947 AND FOR


THE FIRST TIME (LOL)

● COMMISSION STARTED ITS WORKS ON 22 JULY


AND TOOK THE JAIZA OF ALL CIRCUMSTANCES,

● RADCLIFF SAT WITH DIN MOHAMMAD ON THE


PLANE AND TOOK JAIZA OF THE PROMINENT
AREAS IN PUNJAB ( AMRITSAR ) (GURDASPUR)
(FEROZEPUR)

● THE MAIN MOTIVE FOR THIS FLIGHT WAS TO SEE


IF DUE TO GEOGRAPHY TO WHICH EXTENT
KASHMIR CAN BE TAKEN AWAY FROM INDIA.

● BUT UNFORTUNATELY, HE WAS AWARE AND


MADE A BAHANA OF SICKNESS AND LEFT

● AFTER QUID E AZAM LISTENED TO HIM HE SAID HIM TO STAY SILENT ABOUT THE MATTER
HOW INDIA LOST LAHORE

● NOT ONLY NON-MUSLIMS AND MUSLIMS WERE


TO BE TAKEN IN NOTICE AND THE SEPERATION
SHOULD BE DONE, BUT THE FACTOR OF
OWNERSHIP WAS ALSO A BIG FACTOR

● IN LAHORE HINDUS AND SIKHS WERE AROUND


40% BUT IN PROPERTY OWNERSHIP THEY WERE
UPTO 80% WHICH TELLS THAT THE DOMINANCE
IN THE ECONOMY WAS FROM THE NON-MUSLIMS
● MONUMENTS
● BUILDINGS
● BUSINESS
● INSTITUTIONS
● HOSPITALS

PARTITION SE PEHLE LAHORE APNE


● COSMOPOLITANISM
● DIVERSITY
● ETHNIC MULTIPLICITY
KE LIA MANA JATA THA
LORD CYRIL RADCALIFF GAVE WAGE EXCUSES ON
WHY HE GAVE LAHORE TO INDIA, HE SAID

● I HAVE NOT GIVEN ANY BIG CITY TO LAHORE


AND GIVEN YOU KOLKATA

● RED CLIFF DIDNT HAD ANY EXPERINCE IN


DEMARKATION AND USED TO ASK KULDEEP
NAYER ABOUT PARAMETERS AND
YARDSTICKS.

● HASTY DEMARKATIONS
● SECRECY
● ARBITRARY

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