The Punjab Partition Forum

,- 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%. As

- 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...

- Ramanjit Singh Brown University's India Initiative hosted Ashis Nandy to talk about the nature and the reasons for the genocide that took place during Partition in 1947. Ashis Nandy is a distinguished Indian clinical psychologist, social theorist, and critic. He discusses the perversity of why people who had lived peacefully for centuries participated in the violence. Relationships between communities were strong and intertwined that they could not define themselves withou

- 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 th

- 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 and writer Harbhajan Singh Hundal, the news about the growing violence in both sides of Punjab was gradually trickling through the villages in his district. The village lohars were given the task of building crude weapons for protecting the villagers. The nearby Sikh village of Bharroliawala was attacked and only few survivors managed to esca

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