The Punjab Partition Forum

Several major cities of Punjab; Rawalpindi, Sialkot, Ferozepur, Amritsar and Lahore are situated just few kilometers from the border. I often wondered what affects a border this close has on the psychology of people who live near it, how it affects their views about the people on the other side, how it affects their day to day lives as barbed wires separating the once united communities are just a short distance away. Author Jennifer Yusin's term describing the ungraspable lo

Dr. Rana Muhammad Abrar Ahmad from Punjab University, Lahore along with his colleagues Dr. Robina Shoeb and Dr. Anam Iftikhar have written a remarkable account of the positive stories of people helping each other during the chaos of partition. Hindus and Sikhs helping Muslims as they migrated to West Punjab. We are publishing their paper below. Research paper is also available here http://pu.edu.pk/images/journal/studies/PDF-FILES/Article_10_2018_07_12.pdf Some quotes from th

The Radcliff line was the boundary drawn by the British to demarcate the Indian and Pakistani portions of the Punjab province. I was curious as to how the line was drawn over populations, villages, districts, canals, railways, the economic infrastructure of one of the most populous province of British India. I was also curious as to the type of maps that were made available to Cyril Radcliff in 1947 as he started to draw the boundaries. What thought if any was given on how th