The Punjab Partition Forum

- Ramanjit Singh Several major cities of Punjab; Rawalpindi, Sialkot, Ferozepur, Amritsar and Lahore are situated just few kilometers from the border. I often wonder 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 t

- Ramanjit Singh Dr. Rana Muhammad Abrar Ahmad from Punjab University, Lahore along with his colleagues Dr. Robina Shoeb and Dr. Anam...

- Ramanjit Singh The Radcliffe 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 Radcliffe in 1947 as he started to draw the boundaries. What thought if any

- By Ramanjit Singh In India's Punjab, the once vibrant symbols of the Islamic history and culture in the form of buildings, forts,...

- Ramanjit Singh I'm writing this blog to highlight the work done by Mr. Amardeep Singh who has painstakingly chronicled the history and...

- Ramanjit Singh Chak 64 RB was one of the villages in Lyallpur district that had a Sikh majority. According to the famous Punjabi poet...

- Ramanjit Singh With the passage of time, as the year 1947 is becoming a distant memory, so is the geographic and historical awareness...

There are so many stories that remain embedded in one's mind and the following story told by Kirpal Singh (Part 1 and Part 2) about what...

- Ramanjit Singh On June 3rd 1947, the British put forth a notional boundary to partition Punjab based on the 1941 census and as most of the districts or tehsils touching rivers Sutlej and Beas were Muslim majority districts, the approach of how to split Punjab with any semblance of logic became next to impossible. Here is the notional boundary as outlined in June, 1947. You can read the logic behind the boundary decision in Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed's article here " Wavell’s re

- Ramanjit Singh Never before in South Asian history did so few decide the fate of so many and rarely did so few ignore the sentiments of...