Drawing the Line Brenton Howard
Drawing the Line Brenton Howard A vivid telling of the chaotic story of the partition that shaped the modern world.London, 1947. He is to travel to India, a country he has never visited, and, with…
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Drawing the Line Brenton Howard
A vivid telling of the chaotic story of the partition that shaped the modern world.London, 1947. He is to travel to India, a country he has never visited, and, with limited survey information, no expert support and no knowledge of cartography, he is to draw the border which will divide the Indian sub-continent into two new Sovereign Dominions. Summoned by the Prime Minister from the court where he is presiding judge, Cyril Radcliffe is given an unlikely mission.
Wholly unsuited to his role, Radcliffe is unprepared for the dangerous whirlpool of political intrigue and passion into which he is plunged - untold consequences may even result from the illicit liaison between the Leader of the Congress Party and the Viceroy's wife... To make matters even more challenging, he has only six weeks to complete the task. As he begins to break under the pressure he comes to realise that he holds