eprintid: 4006
rev_number: 63
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datestamp: 2003-01-04 13:55:20
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status_changed: 2012-08-14 15:10:01
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Cheema, Pervaiz Iqbal
title: The Politics of the Punjab Boundary Award
ispublished: pub
subjects: ddc-320
divisions: i-702000
divisions: i-999904
keywords: India , Pakistan , Political Science , South Asia , Decolonisation
cterms_swd: Indien
cterms_swd: Pakistan
cterms_swd: Politische Wissenschaft
cterms_swd: Südasien
cterms_swd: Entkolonialisierung
abstract: According to the partition plan of June 3, 1947, the redrawing of the boundaries of the Punjab and Bengal was to be undertaken by the newly set up Boundary Commission after the provincial assemblies had taken a decision to this effect. The verdict started an intense controversy. In many ways no man made boundary has caused so much trouble and effectively impeded the advent of peace in South Asia as has been done by the Punjab boundary resulting from the Commission's verdict. For both the Pakistanis and the Indians the boundary resulting from the partition of Punjab has proved to be a source of constant headaches and periodic convulsions. Just as the problematic border of the North Western Frontier Province (NWFP) elicited constant British vigilance, the Indo-Pak border in the Punjab area has kept the two nations continuously preoccupied throughout their independent existence. The hasty British departure along with unimaginative surgical partition of the Punjab left many complicated problems for the successor nations of British India. The inability of the British to partition the province in congruence with principles of justice and fair play produced unnecessarily a large pile of complex problems. This article is an attempt to understand the basic principles governing the division of Punjab along with the politics that caused the undesired departure from the adopted principles.
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 2000
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00004006
portal_cluster_id: p-hdpaper
portal_order: 01
ppn_swb: 164377042X
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-40063
language: eng
bibsort: CHEEMAPERVTHEPOLITIC2000
full_text_status: public
series: Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics
volume: 1
issn: 16175069
citation:   Cheema, Pervaiz Iqbal  (2000) The Politics of the Punjab Boundary Award.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/4006/1/hpsacp1.pdf