Cyril Radcliffe proposes rough boundaries for India and Pakistan. These proposals would broadly conform to the finalised Boundary Award although it is now impossible to determine how last minute changes may have diverged from these proposed boundaries.

Private Secretary to Viceroy Mountbatten, George Abell, 1964

Source: Walter Bird, National Portrait Gallery, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

Controversially, copies of the map are not on file. Speaking on the matter, Viceroy Mountbatten stated, “The point that arises here was that Abell [private secretary to Mountbatten] sent the letter concerned without my knowledge. It may be hard to convince people that that was so. It will look to have been an odd procedure.” This suggests that the map would likely have been destroyed.

Source: ‘Sir G. Abell to Mr Abbott’ cited in Nicholas Mansergh & Penderel Moon (eds.), Transfer of Power, vol. XII, p. 579