The Punjab Partition Forum

- 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%.

- 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...

- 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. Author Jennifer Yusin's term describing t

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

- Ramanjit Singh The Radcliffe line was the boundary drawn by the British to demarcate the Indian and Pakistani portions of the Punjab province. I was curious as to how the line was drawn over populations, villages, districts, canals, railways, the economic infrastructure of one of the most populous province of British India. I was also curious as to the type of maps that were made available to Cyril Radcliffe in 1947 as he started to draw the boundaries. What thought if any

- By Ramanjit Singh In India's Punjab, the once vibrant symbols of the Islamic history and culture in the form of buildings, forts,...