The Punjab Partition Forum

Ramanjit Singh Darya Raavi forms a part of the border between India and Pakistan Originating from the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, once part of Punjab Hill States, River Ravi (pronounced as Raavi) enters the present day Punjab from the Madhopur Headworks in Pathankot and then meanders its way south west separating the districts of Narowal and Gurdaspur and then Amritsar and Sheikhupura before entering into the Lahore district. Over the centuries, songs have been writt

- Ramanjit Singh Listening to the Partition stories, the mind wanders into a distant time and tries to grapple with the enormity of human...

Following the end of the British rule in 1947, Sikhs and Hindus abandoned their homes, leaving behind numerous spiritual sites across Pakistan. In the 'PEERING SOUL' documentary, Amardeep Singh takes the viewer to spiritual sites in the remote areas of Pakistan. For detailed explorations, refer the two books available on amazon, 1) LOST HERITAGE The Sikh Legacy in Pakistan 2) THE QUEST CONTINUES, LOST HERITAGE The Sikh Legacy in Pakistan Also see 'PEERING WARRIOR' document

Project Dastaan is a peace project that reconnects refugees of the 1947 Partition to their ancestral homes and communities, communicating...

- Ramanjit Singh As Hindu and Sikh refugees started pouring into East Punjab, the newly established East Punjab Assembly in Shimla began...

Ramanjit Singh 1900 map showing Jhelum District, pre-partition Punjab There's something about Jhelum, its people, its soil that has produced extra ordinary men throughout history. In the Imperial Gazetteer of British India published in 1908, the authors wrote about the "position of Jhelum on the great north-western highway, by which so many conquerors have entered India, from the Greek to the Mughal, has necessarily made it a land of fortresses, and has turned its people into

Today, after 72 years since Partition, the Sikhs from Punjab can visit the beautiful Kartarpur Gurdwara Sahib. The importance of this...

- Ramanjit Singh In his autobiography Punjabi Century 1857-1947 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1961), the late scholar...

- Ramanjit Singh The violence in August and September escalated to a scale which no longer can be described as religious riots between two communities. Just like the Muslim mobs started killing the Hindus and Sikhs in districts like Rawalpindi, Sheikhupura, Sialkot, Lahore and others in West Punjab, the same started happening in the Princely states of Patiala and Kapurthala in East Punjab. The violence can be more aptly described as ethnic cleansing where one community was er

- By Ramanjit Singh Partition stories often show the ugliness of humanity, some stories overburden the reader with explanation, but there are some stories that clearly show the inflection point that started it all. The genesis of the violence that engulfed Punjab in 1947. And all this began on March 6th in the Rawalpindi district. The Pindi Sikhs and Hindus were considered the cream of the Punjabi elite, with their large havelis in the Rawalpindi City. One such haveli was a