Abstract
The subcontinent, as it emerged on the dawn of the twentieth century, was a multifarious community of many nations, social identities and religious proportions. The British had ruled this huge mass for almost a century as the first tenors of division began to raise their head, threatening to uproot their ‘idyllic sense of authority’. By now the tussle, later turned into the struggle for independence, had been reduced to two dominant groups, Hindus and the Muslims, aiming at deliverance from imperial clutches with their own motives and maneuvers. With World War II ending on a global horizon, the Indian subcontinent also began to witness turbulent occurrences that would in the coming weeks and months alter the course of history for a very large population of the world. Partition resulted in a massive uprooting of societies on both sides with an approximated 12 to 14.5 million people crossing the newly demarcated boundaries.1 The majority of these people came from Punjab, Sind, North-Western Frontier Province and Bahawalpur from the Pakistani side, East Punjab, Princely States, Delhi and the United Provinces from the Indian side.2 Bengal was largely saved from the appalling tragedy mainly because it had a clear division of Muslim and Hindu areas whereas Punjab had a complex mixing of communities that not only took time to be sorted out but also appropriated a horrific toll on the inhabitants.
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