maharaja of lahore

[muqawwee123]

Re: maharaja of lahore

@Ali_Syed

Gurdaspur was given because of Kashmir as the only land route to Kashmir was though that town. Anyways the undivided Punjab before partition was still Muslim majority around 55-60 percent, and all the major cities like Amritsar etc were Muslim majority, even in delhi there were quite a few Muslims.

I don’t think that Amritsar was a Muslim majority area. You are right that overall Punjab was a Muslim majority area and if Sikhs chose to go with Pakistan, then whole Punjab would have become part of Pakistan on majority formula.

In case of Punjab, most of the tehsils in Districts of Punjab were Muslim majority. Gurdaspur had 52% Muslims, Batala 55%, Shakar Gadh 51%.. Meaning thereby except for Pathan kot, the complete Gurdsapur District was Muslim majority area. If we look at Ferozpur, Faazilka had 75% Muslims, Muktasar 67%, Zira 65%. In Amritsar District, only Amritsar Tehsil had majority Sikh population and Tehsil Ajnala had 59% Muslim population.