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The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

Radcliffe Signed His Awards on 12 and 13 August 1947. Mountbatten Held Them Back Until After Independence Day So That, in His Own Words, the Odium Would Fall Less on the British

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

Up to Fourteen Million People Crossed the Radcliffe Line in 1947, a Border Drawn in Five Weeks as India and Pakistan Became Independent

On 27 October 1947 Indian Troops Flew Into Srinagar, and by the Ceasefire of 1 January 1949 India Held the Valley, Most of Jammu and Ladakh

Sardar Patel and V. P. Menon Turned 554 Princely States Into 14 Administrative Units, and Offered the Rulers a Tax-Free Privy Purse to Sign