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East of Aden
INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, 1948
When this map was made in the early summer of 1948 Indian independence was less than
a year old. Mahatma Gandhi had died earlier in that year, and the last viceroy, Lord Mount-
batten, had finally departed just a few weeks before, after a handover of his palace. The new
political pattern was still not completely formed, and this map tells part of that story. The ap-
