The Missing Maps: How Partition's Cartographers Drew Chaos

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The Missing Maps: How Partition's Cartographers Drew Chaos

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In the summer of 1947, Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer who had never set foot in India, was given five weeks to draw borders that would divide over 400 million people. But behind the rushed lines on maps lay a deeper cartographic confusion: the instruments themselves were faulty. The Survey of India maps used by the Radcliffe Commission were based on outdated surveys, often from the 1890s, and many villages appeared on no map at all. This episode follows the surveyors, the missing tehsil maps, and the clerks who improvised borders using inaccurate sketches while millions moved and died. We also explore the infamous 'Carambolim' error in Bengal, where a cartographic blunder nearly handed a strategic railway to the wrong country. A story of ink, empire, and the human cost of hasty geography. #PartitionOfIndia #CyrilRadcliffe #RadcliffeLine #SurveyOfIndia #Cartography #MissingMaps #CarambolimError #Bengal #Punjab #1947 #BoundaryCommission #MapsOfPartition #GeorgeAbell #VPMenon #BritishRaj #CartographicChaos #History #FexingoHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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