Partition of India
The cartographer’s power to decide the fate of millions
Late one August night in a Pentagon office in 1945, a line scrawled in pencil on a map of the Korean peninsula led to the creation of two countries that are still at war today
‘Help the British anyhow’
The sacrifices made by India on the Allies’ behalf in the second world war would profoundly affect the country’s future for better or worse, says Philip Hensher
