Amritsar - Voices from Between India and Pakistan

Acknowledgements viii Introduction 1 Interviews 1 The Abduction and Rehabilitation of Women and Children, and Related Issues MRS ANANT KAUR 20 2 An Aristocratic Family's Experience of Partition and the Arya Samaj SARDAR ARIDAMAN SINGH DHILLON 31 3 Migration from the Last Sikh Village in the Chenab Canal Colony SARDAR BHAGWANT SINGH KHAIRA 50 4 The Experiences of a Ninety-three-year-old Man from Sialkot SARDAR CHARAN SINGH 60 5 A Clerk Flees Lahore Under Gurkha Escort SARDAR DALIP SINGH 66 6 From D.A.V. College, Lahore, to Khalsa College, Amritsar SARDAR GURBACHAN SINGH BHATTI 72 7 Strong Bonds Between Sikh and Muslim Villagers in District Sialkot SARDAR GURCHARAN SINGH BHATIA 78 8 On Sikhs, Muslims, and Hindu 'Imperialism' SARDAR GURDEEP SINGH BHATIA 86 9 The Experience of Forced Migration for the Rich and the Influential DR HARCHARAN SINGH 93 10 A 1948 Sikh Migrant from Jammu & Kashmir SARDAR INDERJIT SINGH 101 11 The Partition Memories of an Eminent Educationist from the Ramgarhia Sikh Community SARDAR JAGDISH SINGH 106 12 Radical Dislocation from Muzaffargarh and Relative Poverty in Amritsar MR K.B. LAL 117 13 The Massacre of Sikh Women by Their Own Families MRS KARTAR KAUR 123 14 Escape Without Injury from the NWFP to Amritsar SARDAR KULJIT SINGH KHURANA 130 15 Memories of Life in a Refugee Camp MRS KULJEET KAUR 135 16 A Haveli Becomes a Sikh Fortress MR M.S. CHAWLA 142 17 A Granthi Narrates Exactly What Happened in a Refugee Convoy SARDAR MOHAN SINGH 149 18 A Lahore Sikh Delegation Meets Sardar Patel in August 1947 SARDAR MOHINDER SINGH 159 19 A Rare, Uneventful Crossing from Pakistan to India MRS NIRMALA DEVI 172 20 A Christian Preacher's Experience of Partition PETER SADIQ 178 21 An Upper-class Army Doctor's Recollections of Partition DR RANBIR SINGH 185 22 A Secular Schoolteacher and Educationist's Nostalgia for His Pre-Partition Homeland MR ROSHAN LAL 191 23 From Prosperity to Destitution A Village Woman's Nightmare Journey Through the Partition Riots MRS SATYA VANTI 199 24 A Landed Farmer, Wounded and Reduced to Penury by Partition SARDAR TIRATH SINGH 207 25 An Arya Samaji Philanthropist and Original Amritsar Resident's Memories of 1947 VAID VIDYA SAGAR 213 The Partition of India: A Select Annotated Bibliography 218