saw as an inevitable civil war between hindus, muslims, and sikhs, the british commissioner sir cyril radcliffwas given two months. >> two months to create a new country, basically. >> he created the map and just drew a line. you know, people died because of the displacement. unofficially they say it's 2 million people. the minnows get trampled upon. >> in one of the largest exchanges of populations in history, many millions of people fled their homes. almost immediately, religious violence broke out on a mass scale. this is exactly what the partition had been intended to avoid. >> do people here still have families over there? >> they do. when the line was drawn, there were religions which were split into halves. there are some houses where you enter from india and exit from pakistan. >> really? >> yes. >> wow. >> this part of punjab and that part of punjab were once the same so the cultures are very similar. >> it's a popular metaphor for india. pakistan is twins separated at birth. >> we were never twins. i mean, it was one country. you could say dismembered. if you cut a body in two, they