Radcliffe Line 1947: In 1947, British lawyer Sir Cyril Radcliffe chaired the boundary commissions that demarcated the Radcliffe Line, dividing the provinces of Punjab and Bengal between India and Pakistan during Partition. The boundary, drawn with religious and demographic considerations among the factors, triggered an unprecedented wave of mass migration and widespread communal violence. The consequences of Partition had a profound and lasting impact on the social, political and economic fabric of the Indian subcontinent.