The Punjab Partition Forum

- Ramanjit Singh The violence in August and September escalated to a scale which no longer can be described as religious riots between two communities. Just like the Muslim mobs started killing the Hindus and Sikhs in districts like Rawalpindi, Sheikhupura, Sialkot, Lahore and others in West Punjab, the same started happening in the Princely states of Patiala and Kapurthala in East Punjab. The violence can be more aptly described as ethnic cleansing where one community was er