Table of Contents

List of plates
Table
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Glossary
Note on terminology
Introduction
1 ‘Standing on the edge of a volcano’: The historical context of partition
2 ‘This is your country and it is up to you to decide’: The façade of South Asian responsibility
3 ‘Nobody had been paying any attention to the case’: The boundary commission at work
4 ‘Water was the key’: Radcliffe’s private deliberations
5 ‘A political decision, and not a judicial one’: The Radcliffe award
6 ‘The stories they carried’: The aftermath
7 ‘An awful lot of thought should have gone into it’: Alternatives to the Radcliffe award
8 ‘In between, on a bit of earth which had no name’: The development of the Indo-Pakistani borderlands
9 Imperial epitaphs: Cyril Radcliffe and the end of empire
Conclusion: ‘No such deeds’: Responsibility and remembrance
Note on sources
Bibliography

About the Author

Lucy P. Chester is Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of Colorado at Boulder