"Had Master ji not been there that day and had he not acted with that kind of bravado, the map of India would have been very different from what it looks like now. By uprooting the Pakistani flag in Lahore, Master Tara Singh procured for India half of the Punjab and Bengal," - C Rajagopalachari, President of India, was to write years later.
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