The Punjab Partition Forum

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

- Ramanjit Singh In reading through the books and articles written about the impact of Partition, one comes to a realization of the fault...

In his seminal work on the subject of Partition, Mr. Sanwal Dhami, a contemporary Punjabi writer, has conducted numerous interviews with...

In reading about the events of Partition in Delhi, one comes out with a sense of enormous loss of seeing such a rich and dynamic city of the