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Partition of India
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_IndiaAccessed 23 September 2026
Editorial annotation
General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation, on the Partition of British India along religious lines in August 1947 into India and Pakistan (the latter comprising West and East wings), the Radcliffe Line boundary commission, and estimates of between roughly 10 and 20 million people displaced and of communal violence deaths ranging from approximately 200,000 to 2 million across different studies, figures this bundle reports only as an attributed range, not an adjudicated total.