On August 11th, around 3 PM, a mob surrounded a Muslim village of Sidhar Rajputan in the Amritsar District. According to the eye witness account, the zamindars were out tending the fields when the att

The economic and agriculture condition of the Sikhs and Hindus was better in West Punjab versus what they received in East Punjab after migration. Here's a document that reveals this disparity. West P

Link: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/366712/1/Ilyas%2520PhD-E-Thesis.pdf

Article by Harjap Singh Aujla " Rural Lahorias and Sialkotias were the first to migrate to India. According to Gurbachan Singh Bajwa, the then Rehabilitation Minister of Punjab, the Sialkotias crossed

British India railway schedule for Punjab Mail that ran from Bombay to Peshawar. Link to article

The heavily populated area of Field Ganj in Ludhiana, which many say got its name from the city of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, was the only home that young Anwar Ali knew of in pre-Partition

Many Muslim families of this Majha heartland who were converted to Sikhism so that they could save themselves from the communal frenzy in 1947 yearn to meet their relatives in Pakistan. Many who staye

Village Kular (or Kularan) witnessed mass murder of Muslims in the August 1947 partition riots. Reference: Interview by Sanwal Dhami of Mohammad Sharif ( link ). Map of village

About 2,200 Muslims were massacred in this village. Tehsil Tanda, District Hoshiarpur. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJKXvLXdBd8

Events of March are highlighted on a map of Multan describing the events and their locations. https://public.tableau.com/profile/ramanjit.singh#!/vizhome/Multan-March1947/Sheet1?publish=yes

The Ferozepur road, one of Lahore’s arterial thoroughfares, evokes a lot of nostalgia. Starting from the Walled City, connecting several small ancient hamlets on the way, including Ichra, Mozang, Amar

"The container service, transporting goods from the business hub of Ludhiana to Karachi dry port via the Fazilka railway junction not only offered a short route to Karachi (about 900 kms away), but al

The most fascinating demographic feature of post partition Ludhiana was the religious composition of its population. Ludhiana had changed dramatically in the post-partition period. The town transforme

In another of his great articles exploring the close relationships between Sikhs and Muslims, writer Haroon Khalid narrates the story about the role of Muslim rubabis in Sikh Gurdwaras. Link to articl

Reference: Digital South Asia Library - University of Chicago

Link: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/modern/maps1947/maps1947.html

https://books.google.com/books?id=eloPAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Excerpt from Rajinder Kumar Malhotra's journey to Lahore. " What is striking is that though our countries are in conflict over various issues including Kashmir, the people of Pakistan were very courte

"Had Master ji not been there that day and had he not acted with that kind of bravado, the map of India would have been very different from what it looks like now. By uprooting the Pakistani flag in L

Research article by Prashant Bharadwaj, Professor of Economics at UC San Diego and Saumitra Jha, Professor of Political Economy at Stanford University School of Business. The map shows the share of af