About the Book: Gazing at Neighbours: Travels Along the Line That Partitioned
India
AN INTERESTING TAKE AT THE PARTITION OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, THIS BOOK LOOKS
AT THE PLACES DOTTING INDIAS BORDERS WITH ITS NEIGHBOURS AND THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE
THERE.
In July 1947, British barrister Cyril Radcliffe was summoned to New Delhi and
given five weeks to draw, on the map of the subcontinent, two zigzagged lines
that would decide the future of one-fifth of the human race.
One line, 553 kilometres long, created the province of West Punjab; the other,
adding up to 4,096 kilometres, carved out a province called East Bengal. Both
territories joined the