Boundary Commission, the consultative committee created in July 1947 to recommend how the Punjab and Bengal regions of the Indian subcontinent were to be divided between India and Pakistan shortly before each was to become independent from Britain.

The commissionappointed by Lord Mountbatten, the final viceroy of British Indiaconsisted of

• four members from the Indian National Congress
• four from the Muslim League

and it was chaired by Sir Cyril Radcliffe.