The Punjab Partition Forum

- Ramanjit Singh Looking at the 1947 calendar and the adjacent list of common festivals and anniversaries that were being observed in pre-partition India, one gets a sense of how much we have lost. British India was much more pluralistic and tolerant than what we have today. Religious freedom was more widely accepted and protected. Minorities were safe to practice their religion and the ominous trend towards majoritarianism was kept under the lid by the British authorities. O

- Ramanjit Singh Often reading through the eye-witness accounts of the refugees migrating across the border during Partition, there is always a moment in their stories when they reveal the final conversations they had with the people they were leaving behind. It is in those parting words we can understand the enormity of the situation when people were being forced to leave their homes, their land, their friends, everything that they had built over the centuries. The words spo