Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947
Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947 is a book by Sikh author Gurbachan Singh Talib.[1] It was first published in 1950 by the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) and has been reprinted several times.
The book consists of harrowing stories of the Partition of India between the new nations of India and Pakistan. The partition led to one of the greatest population movements in the 20th century, as Muslims in what would become India, and Hindus and Sikhs in what would become Pakistan, fled across the new borders.
This book details the sufferings of the Hindus and Sikhs who fled their homes in the western Punjab,[2] the North-West Frontier Province, Sindh and parts of Kashmir. An appendix contains numerous press and eyewitness accounts of atrocities committed against the refugees during the Partition.
The book takes a position against Pakistan and the Muslim League, which it accuses of planning the massacres.
Critical reception[edit]
It has been reprinted several times and cited in various academic compilations of literature concerning the Partition of India.
Ishtiaq Ahmed, of the Department of Political Sciences at Stockholm University, has examined the book and reports that many of the incidents related in the text can be independently verified.
See also[edit]
- History of the Punjab
- Persecution of Hindus
- Anti-Hindu
- Hindu Temples - What Happened to Them
- Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent
References[edit]
- ↑ Gyanendra Pandey; Professor of History Gyanendra Pandey (22 November 2001). Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India. Cambridge University Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-521-00250-9.
A Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) report on the 'Muslim League' attack on Sikhs and Hindus in 1947, published in 1950, was equally ardent in its acclaim of the 'epic resistance' offered by Sikh men and women in village after village throughout Punjab.
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- ↑ Farahnaz Ispahani (2017). Purifying the Land of the Pure: A History of Pakistan's Religious Minorities. Oxford University Press. pp. 16–. ISBN 978-0-19-062165-0.
....information collated by a Sikh religious organization, the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), in a 453-page book, Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947, indicates “that the main Muslim communal party, the Muslim League, wanted the whole of Punjab and therefore planned the expulsion by all means of Sikhs and Hindus from the areas that were assigned to Pakistan...
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External links[edit]
- Ebook version of the text
- Select Research Bibliography on the Partition of India, Compiled by Vinay Lal, Department of History, UCLA; University of California at Los Angeles list
- A select list of Indian Publications on the Partition of India (Punjab & Bengal); University of Virginia list
- What Really Happened in 1947 ? An Open Letter to Khushwant Singh
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