Introduction
1. ‘Standing on the edge of a volcano’: The historical context of partition
2. ‘This is your country and it is up to you to decide’: The façade of South Asian responsibility
3. ‘Nobody had been paying any attention to the case’: The boundary commission at work
4. ‘Water was the key’: Radcliffe’s private deliberations
5. ‘A political decision, and not a judicial one’: The Radcliffe award
6. ‘The stories they carried’: The aftermath
7. ‘An awful lot of thought should have gone into it’: Alternatives to the Radcliffe award
8. ‘In between, on a bit of earth which had no name’: The development of the Indo-Pakistani borderlands
9. Imperial epitaphs: Cyril Radcliffe and the end of empire
Conclusion: ‘No such deeds’: Responsibility and remembrance
Note on sources
Bibliography
Index

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Lucy P. Chester is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of Colorado at Boulder

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