Release Of Punjabpartition.com

[Sewadar]

Waheguru ji Ka Khalsa

Waheguru ji ki fateh

SikhSangat.com Proudly release our new website "PunjabPartition.com"

On 14 August, 1947 the Union Jack that was ruling over India was split into two - a green coloured flag with crescent and a star, and the tricolour flag with Ashoka chakkra in the middle. Pakistan was thus born out of India. Although firanghees decided to leave India/Pakistan on the same day but thanks to the superstitious beliefs of the Indian leaders that they agreed to be occupied for a day longer because 14th was not regarded as an auspicious day. However, Pakistan got freedom on 14th August, and India a day after on 15th August, 1947....

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Waheguru ji Ka Khalsa

Waheguru ji ki fateh

[dalsingh101]

It is good that this sensitive and important topic for Sikhs has finally been given a forum like this. Well done!

You know, I think about half of the purported 1 million people who died at partition were Sikh. Given that the SIkh community was about 6 million strong back - then this means we may have lost about 8 or 9 % of the population. It was nothing less than a ghallughara.

[Jeevan]

Britain owes an apology to the Sikhs backed up with huge compensation payments!!! The Jews quite rightly pursue members of the Nazi regime even now and are pursuing compensation claims left right and centre. It is time Sikhs took the baton up for land, compensation and the history books to reflect the neglect of duty of the British government.

A memorial needs to be erected outside the Houses of Parliament on the Green to the people of India, whilst the Politicians were debating our people were dying.

Public toilets need to be named Clement Atlee or the Labour Party so we as Sikhs can pay our 'respects'. RIP our beloved men, women and children of the Sikh Panth you paid a heavy price in 1947 - may you sit at the right hand of WaheGuru. My grandparents had to leave what is now Pakistan.

Shame on British Sikhs who support the Labour Party and do not pull them up on this issue.

Long Live The Khalsa

[S1ngh]

I recently started researching about this topic and i found it very strange that the resources on this topic are extremely limited.

I think it is totally the fault of British side on hurrying up the leaving process which resulted in the butchering of millions of humans!

"...an interview with Lord Ismay, the then Chief of Staff of Lord Mountbatten, reveals the defects in the Partition Plan. “A job that needed three months preparation was done in three days.”"

[proactive]

There is a difference between the partition losses and the jewish holocaust, the difference is that all the parties involved, the Akali Dal, Congress and Muslim League agreed to partition. The Jews had no input into what happened to them. As for compensation, there might be a slight chance of success mainly based on the fact that the British as the sovereign power had a duty to protect the lives and property of the people.

With regard to legal action, the Sikhs in 1947 could have tried an alternative strategy in that because the British had illegally annexed the Punjab to their Indian Empire in 1849 that the transfer of power should have been back to the descendants of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. The British had appointed themselves as the protectors of Maharajah Dalip Singh after the first Anglo-Sikh war and then instead of defending their ward against the rebellion in 1848 had in fact treated the rebellion as a war between Sikhs and the British and in doing so annexed the Punjab.