The Punjab Partition Forum

- 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

- Ramanjit Singh Gujranwala, birth place of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Gujranwala, home of Hari Singh Nalwa. Gujranwala, where two-thirds of the business and land was owned by Hindus & Sikhs. Gujranwala, place of the battle between Ahmed Shah Durrani and Sikh Confederacy in 1761. It is with this legacy, I see the Partition violence in Gujranwala with great anguish and sadness. It is regrettable that the Partition of India was solely based on the subject of demographics and nothi

- Ramanjit Singh Located at the banks of the river Chenab, Multan district saw its first large scale violence in the first week of March,...

- Ramanjit Singh Here's another beautiful video of a Sikh visiting Bulleh Shah's mausoleum in Kasur. When I first started researching...

The burned-out Hall Bazaar shopping street after communal riots in Amritsar, Punjab, during the Partition of British India, March 1947...

- Ramanjit Singh The effects of partition on the refugee children is not well researched by historians as most of the books that I have...