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    Online Articles & Books

    A collection of online content describing eye-witness accounts with anecdotes.

    Online Articles & Books
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    Tragedy of Partition: Book Review

    In the book "The Great Tragedy of India's Partition" by S.S. Sharma. The idea of two-nation theory was also supported by the likes of Savarkar and Lala Lajpat Rai. The book is an essential read for those who want to learn more about this topic, and it methodically goes into the stages that led to th
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    Communal disturbances in September, 1947

    On 22 September 1947, Sir Terence Allen Shone, High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to India, sends a telegram to the Commonwealth Relations Office in which he reports on the recent events in India and Pakistan after the partition of the British Indian Empire. He particularly mentions the communa
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    How a Sikh-Turned-Muslim Woman Was Reunited With Family After 35 Years

    Written by Kusum Arora, an independent journalist. Hoshiarpur: Punjab, December 1, 1982. That winter day was special. The dense fog and cold was usual but it was fading away, with the warmth and love that came with the reunion of a family who had been separated in the India-Pakistan Partition 35 ye
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    Lost Homestead - Sargodha

    Marina Wheeler has written a book about her maternal origins. Her mother Dip – then a Sikh teenager – had survived the trauma of Punjab’s partition, of having to leave behind “the Sargodha Homestead, the beautiful house on Civil Lines, the garden and its fruit trees, indeed their whole way of life”.
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    This is Not that Dawn

    Jhootha Sach, written by Yashpal , one of India's greatest contemporary Hindi language authors, was translated in English by his son Anand. The book is an epic novel about pre-partition Punjab and connects both history and fiction to narrate the tremendous hardships faced by ordinary people escapin
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    Jhelum

    " As Punjab’s cities transfigured into urban slaughterhouses in August 1947, Darji – dressed in army uniform – travelled from Lahore in a British army van to urge his parents and step-daughter to leave Jhelum. This was after he had facilitated his immediate family’s exit to the Indian side of the ne
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    Attacking a village

    Partition riots: A Sikh remembers with sorrow how his village attacked Muslims An excerpt from Kavita Puri’s ‘Partition Voices’, which mines the memories of Partition survivors now living in the UK. Reference link: https://scroll.in/article/930175/partition-riots-a-sikh-remembers-with-sorrow-how-his
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    News reports of Train massacres

    Reference: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/6wJCowz-A3aTIw
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    A time of madness

    From article: https://herald.dawn.com/news/1154054 Of course, the pièce de résistance is the re-enactment of the gory slaughter of the gentle and venerable Doctor Badruddin, with all the family members surrounding him, at the hands of a Hindu mob. This unknown fate of the Badruddins had always rankl
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    Eviction of Muslims from Delhi villages

    In her book 'In Freedom's Shade', Anis Kidwai explained the role of the state in widening communal divisions – something that finds reflection even today. In 1947-1948, the Delhi administration conspired to either convert Muslims to Hinduism or evict them from villages in and around the national cap
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    Our Journey to nowhere - Gujranwala

    Malwinderjit Warraich writes about his family's tragic journey from Gujranwala to Indian Punjab. "AMONG the millions caught on the wrong side of the divide was my family from the village of Ladhewala Waraich, close to Gujranwala in Punjab. A science student, I was 17 then. Gujranwala stood every ch
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    Khushdeva Singh

    Khushdeva Singh (1902–1985) was an Indian physician and social worker, known for his contributions towards the treatment of tuberculosis in India. As a doctor working in refugee camps, he saved many Muslim lives during partition. This is what Dr. Khushdeva Singh writes about his experience during o
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    Movement of Refugees in September, October and November 1947

    Reference link; https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/the-road-to-partition/movement-refugees/
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    Chandowal near Narowal

    In the fields out of Chandowal (3 miles out of Narowal) going towards Ali Abad more than 700 mainly Sikhs and many Hindus were massacred. Their bodies infested ponds and wells as well as sugar cane and cotton fields. Many were headless.. A Christian from the local community told my father this as th
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    Kularan, Jullundur

    In eastern Punjab, same was true in areas where Muslims were being slaughtered especially in the months of August and September. They too were being killed in train stations, villages and towns. I recall a heart wrenching interview of Mohammad Sharif , who lives in Jullundur district, telling the i
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    Patiala and Kapurthala

    In reference to the violence in Princely states of Patiala and Kapurthala. https://www.punjabpartition.com/single-post/2019/10/13/Patiala-and-Kapurthala-August---September-1947
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    Bhageaari, Tehsil Tanda, Hoshiarpur

    In one of the eye witness interviews, the person is describing the events in the village Bhageaari (also spelled as Bhagiari) in Hoshiarpur where about 2,200 Muslims were killed. Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJKXvLXdBd8 Link to the map: https://goo.gl/maps/WvVkcfueYzFCuPEN7
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    Railway records on refugee movements

    November 4, 1947, Government of India, Railway Board
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    Ichra, Lahore

    Amar Kaur (96) fondly remembers the rare incidents of brotherhood between Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs that saved her and many others. One of the few living survivors of the 1947 mayhem, Amar Kaur says their Muslim neighbours in Icchra (Lahore) first protected them and later took pains to locate them i
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    Hanfia Refugee Camp in Kasur

    Dr. Ilyas Chattha's research paper on Kasur refugee camps. " By early September, the refugee populations in the Kasur camps had reached 250,000. Supplies of vaccine had run out even although Government efforts to obtain it reached as far as France. The refugee population was thus vulnerable to the
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    Sirhind, Train Massacre, September 1, 1947

    The 1947 Sirhind train massacre was an attack on Ropar ‘s prosperous, wealthy and influential muslim clan Abbasi Shekhaan of Shekhaan Miran locality of Ropar city. It killed 2000 Muslims of this clan and only a dozen people of clan survived. Link: https://en.everybodywiki.com/1947_Sirhind_Train_
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    Saving an old Mosque

    We will not let anyone demolish the masjid, it is the house of god. The 100 years old mosque in village Hedon Bet, Machhiwara Tehsil in Ludhiana still stands tall, despite zero Muslim population in the village. The Mosque that was built in 1920 lies abandoned for want of worshipers. Article: https:
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    When All Else Fails

    When All Else Fails, by Chaim D. Kaufmann, Associate Professor of International Relations at Lehixh University. Link to study Excerpts: Although the provincial population overall was 56 percent Muslim, 27 percent Hindu, and just 13 percent Sikh, the Sikhs averaged considerably wealthier than t
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    Rohri, Rawalpindi and Sialkot/Narowal

    History books and source material on the bloody Partition of India  https://partitionof1947.blogspot.com/2009/08/partition-of-1947-how-sikhs-saved-their.html Several hundred dead Hindus and Sikhs lying around the platform https://partitionof1947.blogspot.com/2009/08/time-magazine-8th-september-194
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    Kamoke, Train Massacre, Sept 24, 1947

    " On September 24, 1947, the train of refugees stopped at Kamoke, a prosperous Hindu-Sikh trading centre situated a few miles from Gujranwala in what is now Pakistan. Dada said, “The train was stopped by Muslim gangs, who wanted to loot and kill and rape people.” These mobs were abetted by members o
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