Cyril Radcliffe
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Cyril Radcliffe was a British lawyer and civil servant best known for drawing the boundary lines that partitioned British India into the independent nations of India and Pakistan in 1947.
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| instanceOf |
British lawyer
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civil servant → human → |
| appointedBy |
Clement Attlee
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| awardReceived |
Fellow of the British Academy
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| birthDate |
1899-03-30
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| boundaryName |
Radcliffe Line
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| commissionedBy |
British government
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| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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| deathDate |
1977-04-01
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| educatedAt |
Haileybury and Imperial Service College
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New College, Oxford NERFINISHED → |
| era |
20th century
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| familyName |
Radcliffe
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| fieldOfWork |
administrative law
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constitutional law → |
| fullName |
Cyril John Radcliffe
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| givenName |
Cyril
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| honorificPrefix |
The Right Honourable
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| honorificSuffix |
FBA
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PC → QC → |
| influenced |
political geography of South Asia
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| knownFor |
drawing the boundary between India and Pakistan at Partition
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| legacy |
creation of international border between India and Pakistan
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| legalBody |
Inner Temple
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| memberOf |
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
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| militaryService |
British Army (World War I)
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| nobleTitle |
life peer
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| notableFor |
chairing the Boundary Commissions for India and Pakistan in 1947
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| notableWork |
Radcliffe Line
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| occupation |
barrister
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civil servant → law lord → |
| peerage |
Peerage of the United Kingdom
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| placeOfActivity |
London
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| positionHeld |
Director-General of the Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)
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Law Lord → Lord of Appeal in Ordinary → |
| practicedLawIn |
England
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| religion |
Anglicanism
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| subjectOf |
historical debate over fairness of Partition boundaries
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| task |
demarcation of boundaries for Bengal between India and Pakistan
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demarcation of boundaries for Punjab between India and Pakistan → |
| title |
Baron Radcliffe
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Referenced by (5)
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Radcliffe Line
("Sir Cyril Radcliffe")
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boundaryCommissionHead |
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Radcliffe Line
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drawnBy |
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Cyril Radcliffe
("Cyril John Radcliffe")
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fullName |
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Partition of India
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keyFigure |
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Radcliffe Line
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namedAfter |