One of the best collection of photographs that i have seen capturing different colors of dreadful, horrifying and bloody partition days of August 1947 separating India and Pakistan into 2 states …puts things in perspective. What a struggle and total hardship folks went through on both sides of punjab…so much blood, so many dead bodies,
A reminder to people on both sides what religious and communal hatred is capable of making normal mortals into monsters…when i look at these faces, i feel like they are asking questions why am i going through all this…why? we pakistanis today shd always remember the price millions paid for this country…
actually we pakistanis shd remember all those hindus and sikhs as well who were killed …as we asked for partition not them. so more responsibility on us to make something out of this Independence…
Re: dreadful, horrifying and bloody partition days of August 1947 ...
Punjab : Bloodied , Portioned and Cleansed
Bloodied from March 47 till Aug 47
Partitioned Aug 47
Cleansed Sept 47 to Dec 47
Dr Ishtiaq has written a book by the same title, its an encyclopedia of communal voilences in 47 Punjab , authentic , reliable , unbiased and Objective
22 years of research , using First hand accounts of Victims as well as perpetrators and best of all , the source is Secret British Official papers .. which he as a Swedish national was able to access..
Bottom Line ... Only Punjab and Bengal were divided Not india..
Re: dreadful, horrifying and bloody partition days of August 1947 …
it may be a controversial post but appreciate an open academic debate
those million of muslim villagers who migrated from indian punjab to pakistani punjab…and got slaugahtered in the mean process, did those punjabi muslim villagers migrate voluntarily in love for pakistan or were they forced to leave thier homes in india as those villages became unlivable due to roits? you look at the pictures that i posted above and you feel that those poor innocent villagers had no idea what is going on…pakistan movement was mostly run by educated musims who were living in central india and bangal and ironically many of them did not even migrate