Editing Radcliffe Line (section)

===Bengal===
====Chittagong Hill Tracts====
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The [[Chittagong Hill Tracts]] had a majority non-Muslim population of 97% (most of them [[Buddhists]]), but was given to Pakistan. The Chittagong Hill Tracts People's Association (CHTPA) petitioned the Bengal Boundary Commission that, since the CHTs were inhabited largely by non-Muslims, they should remain within India. The Chittagong Hill Tracts was an excluded area since 1900 and was not part of Bengal. It had no representative at the Bengal Legislative Assembly in Calcutta, since it was not part of Bengal. Since they had no official representation, there was no official discussion on the matter, and many on the Indian side assumed the CHT would be awarded to India.<ref name="Khisha">{{cite book | title=All That Glisters | publisher=Minerva Press | last=Khisha | first=Mukur K. | year=1996 | page=49 | isbn=978-1861060525}}</ref><ref name="sneha" />
 
On 15 August 1947, Chakma and other indigenous Buddhists celebrated independence day by hoisting Indian flag in [[Rangamati]], the capital of Chittagong Hill Tracts. When the boundaries of Pakistan and India were announced by radio on 17 August 1947, they were shocked to know that the Chittagong Hill Tracts had been awarded to Pakistan. The Baluch Regiment of the Pakistani Army entered Chittagong Hill Tracts a week later and lowered the Indian flag at gun point.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Talukdar |first1=S. P. |title=Chakmas: An Embattled Tribe |date=1994 |publisher=Uppal Publishing House |location=India |isbn=978-818-556-5507 |page=64}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Balibar |first=Etienne |title=Is there a 'Neo-Racism'? |url=http://www.mcrg.ac.in/rd05.htm#_ednref40 |publisher=Calcutta Research group |access-date=5 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928094450/http://www.mcrg.ac.in/rd05.htm#_ednref40 |archive-date=28 September 2007 |url-status=live  }}</ref> The rationale of giving the Chittagong Hill Tracts to Pakistan{{whom|date=December 2024}} was that they were inaccessible to India and to provide a substantial rural [[buffer zone|buffer]] to support [[Chittagong]] (now in [[Bangladesh]]), a major city and port; advocates for Pakistan{{which|date=December 2024}} forcefully argued to the Bengal Boundary Commission that the only approach was through Chittagong.{{fact|date=December 2024}}

The indigenous people sent a delegation led by Sneha Kumar Chakma to Delhi to seek help from the Indian leadership. Sneha Kumar Chakma contacted Sardar Patel by phone. Sardar Patel was willing to help, but insisted Sneha Kumar Chakma seek assistance from Prime Minister Pandit Nehru. But Nehru refused to help fearing that military conflict for Chittagong Hill Tracts might draw the British back to India.<ref name="sneha">{{cite book | editor-first1=Dipak Kumar | editor-last1=Chakma | url=https://store.pothi.com/book/dipak-kumar-chakma-partition-and-chakmas/ | title=The Partition and the Chakmas and Other Writings of Sneha Kumar Chakma | publisher=D. K. Chakma (Pothi.com) | date=2013 | location=India | page=42 | isbn=978-9351049272}}</ref>

==== Malda District ====
Another disputed decision made by Radcliffe was the division of the [[Malda district]] of [[Bengal]]. The district overall had a slight Muslim majority,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dutch |first=R. A. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/saoa.crl.28215987 |title=Census of India, 1941: Volume 4, Bengal (Tables) |publisher=Government of India Press |year=1942 |volume=4 |location=Simla |pages=24–25 |jstor=saoa.crl.28215987 |type=Reports |oclc=316711026 |access-date=7 April 2022}}</ref> but was divided and most of it, including Malda town, went to India. The district remained under East Pakistan administration for 3–4 days after 15 August 1947. It was only when the award was made public that the Pakistani flag was replaced by the Indian flag in Malda.{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}

====Khulna and Murshidabad Districts====
The [[Khulna District]] (with a marginal Hindu majority of 51%) was given to East Pakistan in lieu of the [[Murshidabad district]] (with a 70% Muslim majority), which went to India. However, the Pakistani flag remained hoisted in Murshidabad for three days until it was replaced by the Indian flag on the afternoon of 17 August 1947.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Nawabs' Murshidabad House lies in tatters |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Nawabs-Murshidabad-House-lies-in-tatters/articleshow/48507315.cms |newspaper=The Times of India |access-date=2 May 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105200042/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Nawabs-Murshidabad-House-lies-in-tatters/articleshow/48507315.cms |archive-date=5 January 2017  }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=19 August 1947 |title=Hindus & Muslims embrace each other as brothers |pages=5 |work=Amrita Bazaar Patrika |publication-place=Dhaka |url=http://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/document/dnRXSXI2MHZXMHpiU29aRTFhNHNhUT09 |access-date=15 January 2023 |quote="As per announcement of June 3 last Murshidabad has been placed in Eastern Pakistan Dominion. People of [[Berhampore]] to-day celebrated Independence Day in the absence of any decision made by the Boundary Commission by saluting the Pakistan State Flag."}}</ref>

==== Karimganj ====

The [[Sylhet]] district of [[Assam]] joined Pakistan in accordance with a [[1947 Sylhet referendum|referendum]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Sylhet (Assam) to join East Pakistan |date=July 1947 |website=Keesing's Record of World Events |page=8722 |url=http://www.keesings.com/search?kssp_selected_tab=article&kssp_a_id=8722n01ind |access-date=2 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204201804/http://www.keesings.com/search?kssp_selected_tab=article&kssp_a_id=8722n01ind |archive-date=4 December 2013 |url-status=live  }}</ref> However, the [[Karimganj]] sub-division (with a Muslim majority) was separated from Sylhet and given to India, where it became a district in 1983. As of the [[2001 census of India|2001 Indian census]], Karimganj district now has a Muslim majority of 52.3%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/ |title=Census of India Website : Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India |last=ORGI |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070514045222/http://www.censusindia.gov.in/ |archive-date=2007-05-14 }}</ref>