Who demarcated the line which divides India and Pakistan ........

Indian Freedom Struggle (Easy) 1942-1947

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Who demarcated the line which divides India and Pakistan ?

Sir Cyril Radcliffe

Sir Mortimer Durand

Sir Henry McMohan

Lord Mountbatten

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Sir Cyril Radcliffe

The Radcliffe Line was the boundary demarcation line between the Indian and Pakistani portions of the Punjab and Bengal provinces of British India. It was named after its architect, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, who, as the joint chairman of the two boundary commissions for the two provinces, received the responsibility to equitably divide 175,000 square miles (450,000 km2) of territory with 88 million people. The demarcation line was published on 17 August 1947 upon the Partition of India. Today its western side still serves as the Indo-Pakistani border and the eastern side serves as the India-Bangladesh border.