The Punjab Partition Forum

Ramanjit Singh Ask a Jatt where he is from and he will answer you with two names. He will name the village, and then he will name the got / gotra (lineage) — the ethnicity. Both matter, but the ethnicity matters more. A Sandhu of Amritsar and a Sandhu of Sheikhupura share the same last name and same lineage and yet in 1947, on both sides of a line neither of them drew, they saw themselves torn apart by religious ideology that overshadowed their common ancestry. Their ethnicit