Today we will tell the story of a state that suffered the most loss due to the partition of India Pakistan. Punjab is an integral part of India and the sword arm has always saved India from toxic elements and from time to time has inspired India to follow the spiritual path. Punjab had to face the most impact during the partition of India and Pakistan. In the year 1947, one of the most devastating disposals in the history of mankind was seen due to partition. Millions of people lost their lives in riots and violence. There was a horrific tragedy in which about twenty million people were killed and one and a half crore people migrated. At some time, the border of Punjab used to touch the border of Afghanistan. But after the partition, we have only a small part of Punjab. The Punjab province of India was divided into the Punjab province of West Pakistan and the state of Punjab in India.
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Before part of Punjab
Punjab had very different names in the old times. One of which was Saptasindhu. The translation of which is ‘land of seven rivers’. Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Sutlej, Beas are considered the most sacred in India. There were 29 districts in Punjab before partition. Pakistan got 16 of them. The remaining 13 remained India. 29 districts were divided into Ambala, Jaladhar, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan i.e. five divisions. There were six districts in each delivery. While five districts used to come to Jalandhar. After the partition, two districts of Lahore were received by Amritsar and Gurdaspur India.
How Punjab was divided on the basis of religion
Partition was approved on 3 June 1947. At the same time, power was to be transferred on 15 August. British were restless to liberate India and create a new nation Pakistan. The British government wanted both these works to be dealt with as soon as possible. At the same time, Pandit Nehru and Mohammad Ali Jinnah also wanted the two country to be divided as soon as possible. The situation in Punjab was continuously deteriorating. There were reports of hundreds of people being killed daily from there. The condition of Bengal was also no different. Many princely states signed the merger. The condition of food grains was very bad due to migration from areas of Punjab and Sindh to India on a large scale.
Why could Lahore not become a part of India?
It is true that if he had come true in the right, then the map of India and Pakistan would have been different. Today Amritsar would have been in Pakistan. Think that you would have to take permission of Pakistan to see Golden Temple. At the same time, Hindustani would roam in the streets of Lahore. Because Lahore would come in the bag of India. Not only this, many important cities of Punjab like Ferozepur and Gurdaspur would also go to Pakistan. But this could not happen. The policies of the British separated India and Pakistan in the name of religion. But when it was being talked about the partition of India in the name of religion, then at that time all the veteran people believed that this Lahore would come in the part of India. Today Lahore is the capital of Punjab province of Pakistan. Lahore is the second largest population city in Pakistan after Karachi. Lahore is a city which has its own historical significance. Actually, it was two days since gaining independence on 17 August 1947. But crores of people were shocked and upset. He did not know whether his house, city, mohalla is in India or in Pakistan. On the same day, the red clip line was announced at 2 pm, that is, the partition line divided to two countries. Even before the line that was divided into India and Pakistan, Pakistan had claimed its claim on Amritsar, Firdauspur and Gurdaspur. At the same time, everyone felt that Lahore was from India. Because most of the population in Lahore was of Sikhs and Hindus. But a thought by Red Clip Saheb gave it to Pakistan.
Absolutely unknown Red Cliff pulled lines from India
When Lord Mountbatten was told that you have to divide a country into two parts. One will have a Hindu -dominated population and the other will have a Muslim -dominated population. Mountbatten handed over the work to his friend Radclip. Sir Siril Radcliffe was given a map of India and it was said that he did this work in the next 10 to 12 days. Many cities were given to Pakistan and what arguments were made about many are also very interesting. Siril Radcliffe, a lawyer from India at all unknown profession, started pulling the sharp lines. This is the reason that many such mistakes were made during the partition that many places went from here to there. Then after the partition, millions of people also lost their lives. Radclip is said to be not happy with his own work. After going back to London from India, he burnt all the documents and maps related to partition. Later, he never talked more about this issue.
Radcliffe arbitrary in boundary determination
The mainstay of the partition of Punjab and Bengal in front of the commission was religious population. The Sikh population and their pilgrimage sites in Punjab were spread across Punjab. His demand was that all his pilgrimage site should be included in Eastern Punjab coming in India. On the other hand, the League was demanded for the rest of Punjab except the five districts of Ambala, Karnal, Rohtak, Hisar of the then Punjab’s Ambala Division. Redcliff’s decision was shocking. Lahore had a majority of the Hindu-Sikh population but went to Pakistan’s part. In the words of Redilf, I had given the basis of giving Lahore to Pakistan to Lahore Hindustan. But then I felt that Muslims would have to give a big city in Punjab, because they did not have the capital.
