...by their terms of reference to demarcate the boundaries of the two parts of the respective provinces on the basis of ascertaining the contiguous majority areas of Muslims and non-Muslims. The Bengal Commission was required in addition to demarcate the Muslim majority areas of Sylhet district...

...weeks. The terms of reference for the commissions were simple: they were 'to demarcate the boundaries on the basis of ascertaining the contiguous majority areas of Muslims and non-Muslims, and in doing so to take into account also other factors'. What constituted these 'other factors' was...

...Plan included the provision that the Bengal and Punjab provinces were in general to be partitioned "on the basis of ascertaining the contiguous majority areas of Muslims and non-Muslims. " Even if there had been slavish adherence to this provision, however, many millions of Muslims, widely...

...experience'. The task of the Boundary Commissions was to demarcate the boundaries of India and Pakistan on 'the basis of ascertaining the contiguous majority areas of Muslims and non-Muslims,' and in doing so, to take into account 'other factors' — it was never clear quite what this last meant....

...1947, India and Pakistan were created following the dictates of the Radcliffe Award, which divided the "boundaries of the two parts of the Punjab on...contiguous majority areas of Muslims and non-Muslims" (Kirpal Singh 1991,473-83). After Indian Independence, Sikhs in Punjab, led by the Akali Dal political...

...changed according to different circumstances. After the Radcliffe Award in 1947— which demarcated "the boundaries of the two parts of the Punjab on...ascertaining the contiguous majority areas of Muslims and non-Muslims"-1— between 1948 and 1966 the government of India officially redrew the map of Punjab...

...June 1947. Its mandate was "to demarcate the boundaries of the two parts of the Punjab (and Bengal) on the basis of ascertaining the contiguous majority areas of Muslims and non-Muslims." In doing so, it was to "take into account other factors" (qtd. in Kirpal Singh xxiii). The Commission...

...Munir and Din Mohammad nominated by the League. The term of reference was, "the Boundary Commission is instructed to demarcate the boundaries of the two...contiguous majority areas of Muslims and non-Muslims. In doing so it will take into account other factors." What were these other factors? Similar instructions...

...Radcliffe. Die Aufgaben dieser Kommission wurden wie folgt festgelegt: „The Boundary Commission is instructed to demarcate the boundaries of the two...contiguous majority areas of Muslims and non-Muslims. In doing so, I will also take into account other factors."36 Die Teilung wurde, wie aus der Quelle...