You probably heard it from your parents, or Grand parents, or some other elders in your family. Or any other first hand account. Please share them in this thread.
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migration to Pakistan or from?
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migration to Pakistan or from?
Could be from also, if some Hindu member wants to share how there family migrated to India, yes they can ..
But I really dont want this thread to get any political turn.
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my nana tells me... that jinnah with all his office staff had migrated 20 or so days before the migration of the masses started,,,
Nana as he worked closely with jinnah also had come...leaving nani and their six kids and some close relatives back in the india side to come later in a train... we have heard this story so many times that all this has created scenes in my head..
Nani her brother and my mamoos and ammi and khalas finally packed their bags to migrate to pakistan..they were quite uncertain of what was going to become of their home and all the rest of the belongings that they had left behind.. they simply locked the house and gave the key to a sikh neighbor.. and neighbor they had known for a life time..
just before leaving.. someone thought they had forgotten something in the house and went back to the neighbor for the key... and that neighbor said .. what key???
Anywho... they started their journey by train....ammi tells us that they had black chaaders to cover everybody and make it look like there was no one in the train... and the whole time they were extremly scared of the sikhs slaining muslims left and right..
They say theirs was only one of the few trains that wasnt abducted ..
One of the brothers of my nani who wasn't travelling with this group.. dragged himself for a mile on his chest.. because of his broken legs and played dead among the dead bodies when he sikhs/ hindus came with naked swords..
Nana here in pakistan had no hope of seeing his family ever again.. He saw the whole looting with his own eyes.. but he had least interesting in 'maale ghanimut' he claimed no house not even household things.. People would just break a lock of any property and claim it //
he was simply too depressed about losing all his family... he tells this incident too// that there was this hindu left behind.. who would scream take everything but leave this trunk of mine .. while standing by a metal trunk... people were busy looting.. but then this friend of nana came and murdered him and took over the trunk.. as soon as he opened it.. he coudnt believe his eyes.. it was full of gold..nana says .. ' us ki kismat main nahee tha.. us k hawas kharab ho gae aur wo us trunk ko utha hi na saka' (what a loser .... we thought... )
Nani's family with the kids lived in rescue camps for weeks with almost nothing to eat..
Miraculously nana met his family after 3 months in a rescue camp...
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You probably heard it from your parents, or Grand parents, or some other elders in your family. Or any other first hand account. Please share them in this thread.
Excellent thread,
But soon would be flooded by indians.
Any ways. my best friends Nani moved from india to pakistan. Panjab to panjab.
Thats where the biggest-bloddiest migration happened.
Her convoy was also attacked.
Its a myth that she dropped her jewelery box. dropping every thing on the ground. People who were looting them one of them wanted to attack her.
But when he looked at her, he was stunned. I have met grand ma my self she is very beautiful/graceful person.
I wasn't there but thats what we heard, no harm was caused to her. She came home(pakistan) un-touched with all the gold and stuff.
I have few more to tell. I wold post them later.
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@ hin
wow -- one lucky family you have.
Amazing how you mammon dragged him self for a mile
Poor hindu lost his life saving gold.
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Amazing account Hin ..
gives me shivers reading through that ..
the brother of nani with broken legs wala part and hindu with metal trunk wala part were in particular very spine chilling
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Excellent thread, But soon would be flooded by indians.
Thanks for sharing K_A
Our hindu GS members are welcome too, to share their side of the account
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Not a 1947 stories, my one from my bhabi's khalu of watching the Indian army invade Hyderabad in 1948.
A local college hockey team was playing a game near him when they got word that the Indian army was coming. They took their hockey sticks and any other implements they could find nearby like shovels and when the Indian tanks arrived they ran over to the tanks and began hitting the tanks with hockey sticks and shovels.
This being the Indian army, they opened fire on the hockey team with machine guns and killed them all.
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now abu's side..
He was a rebellious.. his brothers and sisters to this day live in Lucknow/ India and have flourishing buisnesses there..
Abu was 15 or so at the time of partition ..He decided to migrate against the wishes of dada.... Dada had an established business there and they simply didn't like the idea of leaving ' eveything' and go to some new place..
Actually dada had married again after the death of my real dadi so abu was a step child in the family.. and as he says, he wasnt treated very nicely since he had 4 or more step brothers and sisters..
This was his chance to get out..
and he did.. with a few rebellious friends of his....
we never got the details from him on how the travel was ..
He contacted his family many years after that and still goes and visits them..
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^^ Good that you share you dad side of story cause this is what I was thinking
If I have an established business and and hard earned posessions and well settled family , would I migrate leaving everything behind
and we have accounts after accounts of people doing that ...
first I though that it is probably the fear of life that also played a role
but in your dad's case, it was not even that, he did not migrate cause he wanted to save his life .. as you mentioned that Dada and other siblings lived peacfully even after other's migrated
It sound like it was pure patriotism for most of that part that motivated people to take such steps.
Very amazing.
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@ mady
wow... brave boys. freakin cruel soldiers.
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Hin
Good
thing your dad moves to pak. other wise we won't have you at GS.
That would make us sad.
BTW did you dad ever visited falmily in lakhnow, did you ever spoken to some one?there?
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nice stories
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Hin Good thing your dad moves to pak. other wise we won't have you at GS. That would make us sad. BTW did you dad ever visited falmily in lakhnow, did you ever spoken to some one?there?
:) thanksss
yea we are in good terms with the familyy in india.
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i’m from hyderabad and what i haeard is there was no major bloodshed, it was the public of hyderabad who attacked Razakars and the indian army came in the end, it is called Operation polo
At that time, Hyderabad state had some 17 polo grounds, largest anywhere in India, hence the name Operation Polo.
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wow those were scary times....
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History is written by the victors, my friend.
Though even the wikipedia article says that “there was hardly any resistance”, rather than no resistance. I think it’s fair to say that a bunch of young men hitting tanks with sports equipment qualifies as “hardly any resistance”.
Most of the bloodshed followed the annexation. One of the sources used in the wikipedia article is an old article from The Hindu, which quotes a German scholar who estimated that 10-20% of the Muslim male population of Hyderabad was killed in the post-annexation violence.
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this thread is going to be one hindu/muslim india/pakistan fight fest in a second.
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this thread is going to be one hindu/muslim india/pakistan fight fest in a second.
I hope not, and as a mod of this forum, and starter of this thread, I will make sure that it does not happen
but at the same time, cause the issue can take sensitive turn and its Ok to discuss sensitive topics, I thin kwe should just wantch our language and keep away from blame game