MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · August 17
THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 17
August 17 in history
1947 — Wagah — the line itself
17 Aug 1947 — The Radcliffe award is published two days after freedom: here, between Lahore and Amritsar, the new border crosses the Grand Trunk Road. A customs post grows where a five-week pencil line met a thousand-year-old highway.
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