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See also the East India Company resource here.

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This film tells how a hastily-drawn line divided one people into two: how the Radcliffe Line changed Punjab and how communities are affected now. The film explains how and why British tasked Cyril Radcliffe with the job of drawing a line to separate Punjab and Bengal provinces from India into East and West Pakistan. The border’s impact: how Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, and people of other faiths were affected. We see a Sikh pilgrimage divided because of the new border, Punjabi people of all faiths separated, and a culture ultimately divided; spectacular ceremonies on the India-Pakistan border. It’s not all bleak: the presenter shows us a video conferencing session between students of Gyan Mandir Public School (Delhi, India) and Adamjee Model School (Karachi, Pakistan), and a border restructuring to allow the Sikh pilgrimage.

Find the film HERE by searching YouTube’s Vox channel for “How this border transformed a subcontinent | India & Pakistan"

15 questions for the 17 min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Link to film on all sheets.