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INDIAN HISTORY
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Question
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Which Commission was entrusted the task of demarcating the line of India and Pakistan in 1947?
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Wavell
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Redcliffe
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Alexander
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Marshall
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Boundary Commission, consultative committee created in July 1947 to recommend how the Punjab and Bengal regions of the Indian subcontinent were to be divided between India and Pakistan shortly before each was to become independent from Britain.
Detailed explanation-2: -In June 1947, Sir Cyril John Radcliffe, a British lawyer, was made the Chairman of two boundary commissions of Punjab and Bengal and given the task to draw up the new borders of India and Pakistan. He was given a period of five weeks to complete this task and arrived in India in July 1947.
Detailed explanation-3: -The boundary demarcation line between India and Pakistan known as the Radcliffe Line came into force on 17 August, 1947.
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