The concept of the movie was based on the director’s reading of the book ‘Mottled Dawn – Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition’ by Saadat Hasan Manto. The movie is not a true story, it is a fictional work based on true events, revolving around the partition and the Radcliffe line. Both movies are directed by Srijit Mukherji. Radcliffe Line – Map and Imagesīegum Jaan is a Bollywood movie based on a hit Bengali movie ‘Rajkahini’. The movie tells the story of the struggles of the protagonist to protect her house and her fight against the administration which wants to demolish the house as the Radcliffe Line ran bang through the middle of the house after partition of India. The Radcliffe Line in Begum Jaan movieīegum Jaan is an upcoming Hindi movie starring Vidya Balan. About one million people died due to diseases, starvation, murder, etc., during this mass exodus. About 14 million left their homes on either side of the Radcliffe Line and travelled on foot or available transport options, to be with people of their religion as refugees. But the outcome of the partition was completely different. Radcliffe drew up the boundary partitioning Punjab and Bengal in such a way as to minimize forced relocation of people and separation of farmlands from farmers. Punjab was also divided the eastern part was granted to India and the western part went to Pakistan. The Radcliffe Line partitioned Bengal into West Bengal (India) and East Bengal (Pakistan). The provinces of Punjab and Bengal did not have overwhelming majority of either Hindus or Muslims. The provinces of Sindh with a Muslim majority of nearly 73 percent and Baluchistan with almost 92 percent Muslim population were assigned fully to Pakistan. Radcliff destroyed all his data and papers before leaving India on 15 th August 1947. The casual and hasty division was justified by Radcliffe that suffering of people was inevitable irrespective of what he did. Radcliffe arrived in India on Jand finished demarcating the borders 2 days before independence. Instructions for the commission stipulated demarcation of boundaries of the 2 areas of Punjab and Bengal as per continuous Muslim and Hindu majority areas as well as other factors like socio-political elements, communications, natural borders, irrigation systems, and waterways, etc. In June, the UK appointed Sir Cyril Radcliffe to demarcate the boundary line and decide the exact territories that would be assigned to India and Pakistan. The Viceroy of India, Lord Wavell, had already drawn up a crude border before getting replaced by Lord Mountbatten in February 1947.
The British provinces located in the north with Muslim majority populations would become the foundation of the new country of Pakistan. India was designated to be a country for Hindus while Pakistan was a homeland for Muslims. Among varied provisions, the act stipulated the end of British rule in India on 15 th August 1947 and partition of India into 2 new independent sovereign nations, i.e., India and Pakistan. The Indian Independence Act 1947 was passed by the British parliament on July 15, 1947. The Radcliffe Line still currently serves as the border between India and Pakistan on the western side and as the Indo-Bangladesh border on the eastern side.
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