The Punjab Partition Forum

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 he saw in Narowal and Gurdaspur is probably one of the most heart wrenching stories that highlights the scale of violence that was taking place in Punjab in August 1947. Kirpal Singh's village was Chandiawala in Narowal and his family had to leave the village on August 20th, 1947. Coming towards Ghanike Bet (in Gurdaspur) he saw large scale

- 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 rea

- 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...

- Ramanjit Singh Imagining a United Punjab in the present time is not only a mirage but it implies that we have not understood the deep...

- Ramanjit Singh Reading through the eye witness accounts of the partition holocaust, one keeps encountering a common narrative from the...

- Ramanjit Singh Growing up in India during the 70s and 80s, I was always fascinated with history. I remember visiting places like...