Source 1

This map shows how British India was divided up after the 1947 partition: into India (majority non-Muslim) and Pakistan (majority Muslim).

 

India and Pakistan, showing States, and areas allocated to neither new country, 1948. Catalogue ref: MFQ 1/1145

Transcript

INDIA & PAKISTAN

 

SHOWING DIAGRAMMATICALLY THE POSITION OF THE STATES

 

To Accompany Pol. 1431/48 of 30th June 1948

 

International frontiers = [dotted line]

” ” undemarcated = [dotted line with x]

State boundaries = [dotted line with blue]

Inter-Dominion boundary = [green line]

Portuguese Territory = [circle with diagonal lines] (P)

French ” = [circle with horizontal lines] (F)

Patiala Union = P. U.

 

INDIA = [white]

PAKISTAN = [green]

States included in Part 5 of Pol. 1431/48 = [yellow]

 

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