History Gallery

In March 1951, the editors of this National Geographic map are still warning their readers about possible boundary changes, especially in Kashmir

Indian troops invade and seize the princely state of Hyderabad in 1948, a map from the archives of the Chicago Sun-Times

And how things looked right after Partition, a news map from the archives of the Chicago Sun Times

A news bureau map from August 1947, pre-Partition, attempts to represent the complexities of the situation

The earliest proposed map of the "Pak Commonwealth of Nations," c. 1940