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 scholar Gurbachan Singh Talib. The introduction to the reprint was written by Ram Swarup. It was published in 1950 by the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC).
The book documents the story of 7 million Hindus and Sikhs who were uprooted from their homes in the West Punjab, the North-Western Frontier, Sind and parts of Kashmir. It tells the story of political negotiations that preceded this event, their failure, and the pre-planned barbarity that followed. The book records the atrocities of this period - the carnage, killings, abductions and forced conversions that took place particularly in 1946-47, forcing Hindus and Sikhs to leave their land and homes and start the biggest mass migration of humanity.
The book records the story of the Partition of India in West Punjab, the North-Western Frontier, Sind and parts of Kashmir. The Partition of India led to one of the greatest population movements in the 20th century. The appendix contains an account of the atrocities of the period 1946-1947 that was recorded by eye-witnesses or by press reports. According to one of these press reports (The Statesman of April 15, 1947), in one village ninety women jumped into a well and drowned to "evade inglorious surrender" and save their honour. The book also records the attacks on the Dehra Sahib Gurdwara of Lahore, an important Sikh site of the martyrdom of Sri Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth Guru of the Sikhs. The book claims that due to the Muslim League, the Muslim attacks on Sikhs and Hindus were well organized, and that Amritsar was the "worst sufferer" among the cities of the Punjab.
