The new official border was called the Radcliffe Line, created in 1947 by a British barrister, Sir Cyril Radcliffe. The two parts of Pakistan were separated by over 2000 kilometers of Indian landmass, and cultural and linguistic differences. By 1971,…

The area of Sylhet was split between East Pakistan and Assam through the Sylhet Referendum in 1947.

The province of Bengal was partitioned twice by the Britishers, the first time in 1905, but it was reunified in 1911. And the second time in 1947, in which West Bengal remained with India, and East Bengal became East Pakistan,…

The British partitioned Burma as it was known then or Myanmar as it is known now, through the Government of India Act of 1935. On 1 April 1937, Burma became a separately administered colony of Great Britain, and on 4…