This is a collection of reports from the Punjab Boundary Commission showing the different perspectives on how Punjab should be partitioned.

As I was reading through the 1904 Punjab Gazatteer of the Hoshiarpur District, I came across a section on the barbarous custom of Female infanticide in nineteenth century Punjab.

Link to the study: https://ia800102.us.archive.org/34/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.531229/2015.531229.punjab-district_text.pdf

"Gur khaein, punya katteen, Apney bhaiya ghalleen"

I think the better translation in English is this:

Eat your sugar, do good become virtouous and send your brother instead.

Much before the calamitous events of Aug-Sept 1947, the north-eastern region of what is now Pakistan saw targeted attacks on Sikh villages.

Born and brought up in Nowshera Cantonment in Peshawar, I was 14 at the time of Partition. An important cantonment of British India, it had the Royal Air Force Centre and the Sikh Regimental Centre. The city was home to a small civilian population and was surrounded by Pakhtun villages. We were taught Urdu and Persian in school and my father conversed with his patients in fluent Pashto. Nowshera was famous for the great battle in 1823 that resulted in a decisive victory for Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s army against the Afghans, with the annexation of Peshawar valley beyond Khyber.

Both my parents belonged to Choha Khalsa in Kahuta tehsil of Rawalpindi district in Pothohar, a plateau in north-eastern Pakistan comprising the districts of Rawalpindi, Attock and Jhelum. Sikh…

Photographs of pre-partition havelis of Kalanaur, Rohtak.

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