Borders and Conflict in South Asia: The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the Partition of Punjab

List of plates Table Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Glossary Note on terminology Introduction 1 'Standing on the edge of a volcano': The historical context of partition 2 'This is your country and it is up to you to decide': The facade of South Asian responsibility 3 'Nobody had been paying any attention to the case': The boundary commission at work 4 'Water was the key': Radcliffe's private deliberations 5 'A political decision, and not a judicial one': The Radcliffe award 6 'The stories they carried': The aftermath 7 'An awful lot of thought should have gone into it': Alternatives to the Radcliffe award 8 'In between, on a bit of earth which had no name': The development of the Indo-Pakistani borderlands 9 Imperial epitaphs: Cyril Radcliffe and the end of empire Conclusion: 'No such deeds': Responsibility and remembrance Note on sources Bibliography