Broken record: Contested boundaries, founding challenges and a provincial govt dismissed
The issues of Dawn of Aug 18 till Aug 24, 1947 were dominated by the announcement of the Radcliffe Commission award, setting the formal boundaries of the dominions of Pakistan and India, while communal violence, and efforts to quell it on both sides, also featured prominently on the pages. In more welcome news, the bureaucracy in the nascent state rolled up their sleeves to take up the task of…
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