The Punjab Partition Forum

- Ramanjit Singh The feeling of being outnumbered during a State sponsored killing is the most depressing and demoralizing feeling one...

,- Ramanjit Singh Punjab's Partition was based on British India's 1941 Census. As head of the Punjab Boundary Commission, Cyril Radcliffe took these statistics to finalize the division of the Province. (Source: Princeton University study ) The notional boundary that was first disclosed to the public in June 1947 had given Gurdaspur to Pakistan. Gurdaspur had Muslim majority of 50.2% and Amritsar also had Muslims as the single largest community with a population of 45.4%.

- Ramanjit Singh Violence in Punjab from August '47 onwards took a macabre turn as people turned on each other on a scale that was never...