The Punjab Partition Forum

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One of the iconic trains that connected the Punjab province to the rest of the country was the Punjab Mail. Established in 1912, the...

- Ramanjit Singh Author Omar Khalidi's book " FROM TORRENT TO TRICKLE: INDIAN MUSLIM MIGRATION TO PAKISTAN, 1947—97 " has several...

- Ramanjit Singh In my recent visit to Ferozepur, I had the opportunity to visit the Hussainiwala-Ghanda Singh border and watch the...

- Ramanjit Singh The feeling of being outnumbered during a State sponsored killing is the most depressing and demoralizing feeling one...

,- 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. Lahore and Amritsar, Sialkot and Jammu, Raw

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