CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1947 - Partition - Radcliffe Award (1947)
The Bengal Boundary Commission held its public sittings in:
A. Dhaka
B. Calcutta
C. Delhi
D. Chittagong
Correct Answer: B
The Bengal hearings were held in Calcutta.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1947 - Partition - Radcliffe Award (1947)
The Punjab part of the Radcliffe Line today forms much of the border between:
A. Pakistan and Afghanistan
B. Pakistan and India
C. India and Nepal
D. Pakistan and Iran
Correct Answer: B
The western Radcliffe boundary remains central to the India-Pakistan frontier.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1947 - Partition - Radcliffe Award (1947)
Which statement is historically cautious regarding Gurdaspur and Kashmir?
A. The Award legally decided Kashmir's accession
B. The allocation affected access but did not itself determine Kashmir's accession
C. Kashmir was part of the Punjab Commission
D. Radcliffe became ruler of Kashmir
Correct Answer: B
The boundary affected geography and access, but princely-state accession was a separate legal and political issue.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1947 - Partition - Radcliffe Award (1947)
The allocation of most of Gurdaspur to India became linked in Pakistani argument with:
A. Access toward Jammu and Kashmir
B. Control of Karachi port
C. The status of Hyderabad Deccan
D. The NWFP referendum
Correct Answer: A
Pakistani criticism argued that the allocation provided India a land route toward Jammu and Kashmir.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1947 - Partition - Radcliffe Award (1947)
Which criticism is most closely associated with Pakistan's view of the Punjab Award?
A. It gave Pakistan all disputed Muslim-majority tehsils
B. It awarded several contested Muslim-majority areas and strategic headworks to India
C. It abolished West Punjab
D. It placed Lahore in India
Correct Answer: B
Pakistani leaders objected especially to Gurdaspur-related areas and Ferozepore/Zira.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1947 - Partition - Radcliffe Award (1947)
Radcliffe hoped disruptions in canals, railways and electricity would be addressed by:
A. Permanent military occupation
B. Inter-dominion agreement and joint control
C. Closing cross-border systems
D. A new British province
Correct Answer: B
He urged cooperation between India and Pakistan over services that could not be divided cleanly.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1947 - Partition - Radcliffe Award (1947)
A key practical difficulty in Punjab was that irrigation and transport systems had been developed for:
A. Separate communal administrations
B. A single provincial administration
C. Independent district governments
D. Princely states only
Correct Answer: B
Canals, railways and roads had been planned as integrated provincial systems.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1947 - Partition - Radcliffe Award (1947)
The Award did not decide Bahawalpur's separate territorial claim concerning villages near:
A. Wagah and Atari
B. Sulemanke Weir and Gurka Ferry
C. Lahore and Amritsar
D. Madhopur and Pathankot
Correct Answer: B
Radcliffe expressly stated that the Commission was not deciding Bahawalpur's separate village claim.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1947 - Partition - Radcliffe Award (1947)
Radcliffe assumed that pre-existing water-sharing agreements involving princely states would be:
A. Automatically cancelled
B. Respected by the successor government
C. Transferred to the United Nations
D. Decided only by Britain
Correct Answer: B
The Punjab report assumed that existing agreements would continue to be honoured.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1947 - Partition - Radcliffe Award (1947)
Representations concerning canal headworks were submitted by which princely states?
A. Kashmir and Patiala
B. Bikaner and Bahawalpur
C. Hyderabad and Junagadh
D. Jodhpur and Jaipur
Correct Answer: B
Bikaner and Bahawalpur made representations because of their canal interests.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1947 - Partition - Radcliffe Award (1947)
Which headworks did Radcliffe expressly intend to place in West Punjab?
A. Madhopur
B. Ferozepore
C. Sulemanke
D. Harike
Correct Answer: C
The Award stated that Sulemanke headworks should fall within West Punjab.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1947 - Partition - Radcliffe Award (1947)
Which integrated power project could not be kept under one territorial jurisdiction?
A. Tarbela Project
B. Mandi Hydro-electric Scheme
C. Mangla Project
D. Warsak Project
Correct Answer: B
Radcliffe cited the Mandi Hydro-electric Scheme as another service disrupted by partition.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1947 - Partition - Radcliffe Award (1947)
The Upper Bari Doab Canal system was:
A. Kept entirely in Pakistan
B. Kept entirely in India
C. Severed by the boundary
D. Transferred to Bahawalpur
Correct Answer: C
The border divided the integrated canal system between the two dominions.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1947 - Partition - Radcliffe Award (1947)
The headworks at Madhopur were connected with the:
A. Upper Bari Doab Canal
B. Dipalpur Canal
C. Lower Chenab Canal
D. Sukkur Barrage
Correct Answer: A
Madhopur in Pathankot tehsil was the headworks of the Upper Bari Doab Canal system.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1947 - Partition - Radcliffe Award (1947)
Radcliffe suggested that the Ferozepore headworks problem required:
A. Complete closure of all canals
B. An arrangement for joint control
C. Transfer of all Punjab to India
D. A referendum in Lahore
Correct Answer: B
He found it difficult to envisage a satisfactory line without joint control of dependent canal intakes.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1947 - Partition - Radcliffe Award (1947)
Which canal serving West Punjab took off from the Ferozepore headworks?
A. Upper Bari Doab Canal
B. Dipalpur Canal
C. Lower Jhelum Canal
D. Swat Canal
Correct Answer: B
Radcliffe specifically noted that the Dipalpur Canal serving West Punjab depended on Ferozepore headworks.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1947 - Partition - Radcliffe Award (1947)
The Ferozepore headworks were located on the:
A. Ravi River
B. Sutlej River
C. Chenab River
D. Jhelum River
Correct Answer: B
The Ferozepore headworks controlled canals taking water from the Sutlej.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1947 - Partition - Radcliffe Award (1947)
Which two Ferozepore tehsils were especially controversial in Pakistani criticism of the Award?
A. Ferozepore and Zira
B. Moga and Ludhiana
C. Muktsar and Ambala
D. Fazilka and Rohtak
Correct Answer: A
Ferozepore and Zira were repeatedly cited in Muslim League and Pakistani criticism.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1947 - Partition - Radcliffe Award (1947)
Which Punjab district was placed in India despite major Pakistani objections concerning Muslim-majority areas and canal headworks?
A. Ferozepore
B. Rawalpindi
C. Multan
D. Jhelum
Correct Answer: A
Ferozepore district, including its strategically important headworks, went to East Punjab.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1947 - Partition - Radcliffe Award (1947)
The southern Punjab boundary ultimately followed district boundaries near which river?
A. Ravi
B. Jhelum
C. Sutlej
D. Chenab
Correct Answer: C
The line ran along the Sutlej and the Lahore-Ferozepore and Ferozepore-Montgomery district boundaries.