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Partition of India in 1947 and the drawing of the administrative lines of control: Radcliffe Lines which gave birth of two independent nationalities: the Republic of India and the Republic of Pakistan had its grim aftermath too especially in the border line localities of both the countries. This appeared massively in Indian literature written in English as well as in other languages like Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Marathi and others, but a cinematic representation of the Partition has its special attraction for the viewers. And among all the Indian films based on the Partition of 1947, Srijit Mukherji's Rajkahini (2015) is an exceptional filmic representation not because he has depicted the bleak and bloody history of the Partition, but because he has singularly represented the Partition and politics of the Radcliffe Lines on the backdrop of a whorehouse and the miserable lives of its eleven women inmates most of whom are in the flesh trade. The present paper proposes to find out some of these politics.