Editing Radcliffe Line (section)

===Haste and indifference===
Radcliffe justified the casual division with the [[truism]] that no matter what he did, people would suffer. The thinking behind this justification may never be known since Radcliffe "destroyed all his papers before he left India".{{sfn|Chester, The 1947 Partition|2002|loc="Methodology", para. 1}} He departed on Independence Day itself, before even the boundary awards were distributed. By his own admission, Radcliffe was heavily influenced by his lack of fitness for the Indian climate and his eagerness to depart India.<ref>{{harvnb|Read & Fisher, The Proudest Day|1998|p=484}}: Years later, he told Leonard Mosley, "The heat is so appalling, that at noon it looks like the blackest night and feels like the mouth of hell. After a few days of it, I seriously began to wonder whether I would come out of it alive. I have thought ever since that the greatest achievement which I made as Chairman of the Boundary Commission was a physical one, in surviving."</ref>

The implementation was no less hasty than the process of drawing the border. On 16 August 1947 at 5:00 pm, the Indian and Pakistani representatives were given two hours to study copies, before the Radcliffe award was published on 17 August.<ref>{{harvnb|Read & Fisher, The Proudest Day|1998|p=.494}}</ref>