The Punjab Partition Forum

- Ramanjit Singh How the border between India and Pakistan was drawn in Punjab remains one of the most interesting subject for research in the entire Partition saga. I have documented the reasoning behind the Radcliffe Award and how the notional boundary, first outlined in June 1947, was markedly changed when the final boundary was announced on August 17th, 1947 (after a delay of two days). Notional Punjab Boundary formulated as of June 1947 exposes Amritsar from all three s

- Ramanjit Singh A digitized collection of historical books on Punjab is available in the Panjab Digital Library (based in Chandigarh,...

- Ramanjit Singh Partition has changed us in multitude of ways and has left a permanent and an irreversible mark on the social psyche of...

- Ramanjit Singh We were always their pawns, we just never realized it. Sometimes it's a confluence of things that create an impression,...

- Ramanjit Singh The Partition of India was more harmful for Pakistan than it was for India. A country based on a false pretense that...

- Ramanjit Singh The Partition violence did not start in summer of 1947. It had started way earlier in December of 1946 in NWFP and later...

- Ramanjit Singh There are probably only few of us left who are trying to navigate through this hyper nationalist and divided world with...

- Ramanjit Singh In order to understand the enormity of events that had befallen on Punjab in 1947, we need to look at each event in its own context. And more importantly, we need to look at them through the eyes of those individuals who saw those events first hand and described them with specificity. In our research, we came across a reference of a particular diary that was written by Mr. Anokh Singh, who was a District Collector at Ferozepur in 1947. He was in charge of man

- Ramanjit Singh In this remarkable interview by the American TV interviewer Arnold Michaelis, India's Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal...

- Ramanjit Singh Throughout history there are events that change a city's destiny. The fall of Rome is often mentioned as the pivotal...