Britain’s 1947 border drew through communities with callous indifference

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In 1947, in what must surely count as one of the most callous, iniquitous acts in history, the British government drew a hurried border through the country that cut through communities and people, villages and homes, with less care than it might have taken to slice up a leg of lamb. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 170

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Category: Factual Claims

• CANDY: The ‘less care than slicing a leg of lamb’ simile is a memorable, sharable one-liner about the Partition.