Editing Radcliffe Line (section)

====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>