Sikhs ownership properties & assets in Lahore before partition

[Kau89r8]

 

[Premi5]

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[ChardikalaUK]

That's all well and good but as I've said many times, in the modern age Demographics matter. If Sikhs+Hindus formed more than 50% of the population of Lahore then it would have gone to India but they didn't so that's that. Even in Amritsar Sikh + Hindus barely had a majority over muslims.

Furthermore in Pre Partition there were more muslims in East Punjab than there were Sikhs and Hindus in West Punjab. More of them had to migrate than we did.

I don't get this obsession with Lahore.

I'll say it again - Partition was brutal but in the long run it was good for us. I rate Jinnah for having the foresight in seeing that Muslims and non Muslims won't get along and that's been proven again and again.

[californiasardar1]

It is what it is. Gotta move on.

[Suchi]

5 hours ago, ChardikalaUK said:

That's all well and good but as I've said many times, in the modern age Demographics matter. If Sikhs+Hindus formed more than 50% of the population of Lahore then it would have gone to India but they didn't so that's that. Even in Amritsar Sikh + Hindus barely had a majority over muslims.

Furthermore in Pre Partition there were more muslims in East Punjab than there were Sikhs and Hindus in West Punjab. More of them had to migrate than we did.

I don't get this obsession with Lahore.

I'll say it again - Partition was brutal but in the long run it was good for us. I rate Jinnah for having the foresight in seeing that Muslims and non Muslims won't get along and that's been proven again and again.

That's not the whole picture. The demography was manipulated through organised raids and genocide by the Muslim League before Partition, masterminded by the British using Jinnah and Gandhi who were their stooges. 

Part of this plot included keeping Muslims in India, hence why we are facing so many problems with resources. They invariably need more and more due to their religious diktat on Ghazwe e Hind. Wake up. 

[ChardikalaUK]

6 hours ago, californiasardar1 said:

It is what it is. Gotta move on.

Well said, and I hope Punjabi singers and actors end this obsession with Lahore too.

[californiasardar1]

2 hours ago, ChardikalaUK said:

Well said, and I hope Punjabi singers and actors end this obsession with Lahore too.

 

Some problems with Sikhs:

1) We live in the past. Do Pakistanis get all nostalgic and obsessive about Amritsar and Jalandhar?

2) We put being Punjabi ahead of being Sikh. Punjabi Muslims are Muslim first, Pakistani second, Punjabi third. Punjabi Hindus are Hindu first, Indian second, Punjabi third. Sikhs are Punjabi first.

[ChardikalaUK]

1 hour ago, californiasardar1 said:

 

Some problems with Sikhs:

1) We live in the past. Do Pakistanis get all nostalgic and obsessive about Amritsar and Jalandhar?

2) We put being Punjabi ahead of being Sikh. Punjabi Muslims are Muslim first, Pakistani second, Punjabi third. Punjabi Hindus are Hindu first, Indian second, Punjabi third. Sikhs are Punjabi first.

I was going to make your first point in my previous post. Lahore, Lyallpur etc mean diddly squat to me. I don't want to visit them nor do I care about what happens there. One of my grandfathers was even born on that side, he went back to visit his village once and that was it, he wasn't obsessed about it like some pathetic apne are.

We are obsessed with Punjab and Punjabiat because we have no country of our own.

I've seen your thread about Shaadi.com, I remember in my single days I went to one of their speed dating events and one girl said as long as her partner is Punjabi she would be happy, whether he was Sikh or Hindu.