Abstract
Much have been written on the history of violence in India but an academic study of violence on the locality level has not yet been produced. Therefore, this studyaimed to address that gap by focusing on the history of violence in Lahore before the partition of India. The city of Lahore is not only a locality because of its multifold factors. It has also been a main hub of socio-economic, religious and political activities of the Punjab and India for centuries. Therefore, whatever and whenever unsual political developments took place in Lahore they had serious implications for the region in particular and the Indian subcontinent in general. The violence, once it erupted in Lahore spread to the entire province like a wildfire. This eventually forced migration of non-Muslims from Punjab’s western areas, which were included in Pakistan, to East Punjab. Therefore, it is important to understand the nature, mode and development of this violence in Lahore, which occurred before the partition of India. This violence caused bitterness in people across the new borders of the two countries for which all the communities involved blame each other for its beginnings.