A political map of the Partition of British India

A poster map of India and Pakistan published less than two years after the partition of British India. The key marks land altitude, the main industries and where rice, tea and jute are grown. It depicts the disputed areas of Kashmir and Hyderbad and notes the strengths of India and Pakistan and that the 'chief needs of both are food and power'. The map was published by the 'Bureau of Current Affairs', which was set up in 1940 as the 'Army Bureau of Current Affairs' to educate and mentally stimulate the armed forces. After the war it turned to the education of civilians, under the auspices of the Carnegie Trust.