The Punjab Partition Forum

- 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...

What happened in Punjab during 1947 was outright genocide.

- Ramanjit Singh It has been 70 years after India's partition and its affects still linger in our political and social domains. These 70...

- Ramanjit Singh As part of the ongoing research of the Partition events, I have noticed that those who write about the 1947 Partition...

- Ramanjit Singh Hate is embraced more by those who did not suffer Partition. One of the constant theme in the Partition narrative is...