Muslim League Attack On Sikhs And Hindus In The Punjab 1947

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Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947 is a book by Sikh author Gurbachan Singh Talib. It was first published in 1950 by the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) and has been reprinted several times. The book consists of harrowing stories of the Partition of India between the new nations of India and Pakistan. The partition led to one of the greatest population movements in the 20th century, as Muslims in what would become India, and Hindus and Sikhs in what would become Pakistan, fled across the new borders. This book details the sufferings of the Hindus and Sikhs who fled their homes in the western Punjab, the North-West Frontier Province, Sindh and parts of Kashmir. An appendix contains numerous press and eyewitness accounts of atrocities committed against the refugees during the Partition. The book takes a position against Pakistan and the Muslim League, which it accuses of planning the massacres. It records 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, and the atrocities of this period-the carnage. Killings, abductions and forced conversions that took place, forcing Hindus and Sikhs to leave their hearths and homes and start on the "biggest mass migration of humanity," as the author describes Table of Contents:- 1. Pakistan-Birth and Objectives 2. The Cabinet Mission and the Muslim League Direct Action 3. Prelude to Genocide of Hindus and Sikhs 4. March, 1947. 5. Note on Attack on Gurdwara Dehra Sahib 6. The Gandhi - Jinnah Appeal for Peace 7. Frontier Province and D. I. Khan 8. Round about August 15, 1947 9. Amritsar 10. West Punjab Ablaze 11. Sind 12. Did Sikhs (And Hindus) Voluntarily Leave Pakistan? 13. Did The Sikhs Have A Plan? Appendix - Atrocities 1 to 200 Appendix - Atrocities 201 to 400 Appendix - Atrocities 401 to 592 1. Pakistan-Birth and Objectives 2. The Cabinet Mission and the Muslim League Direct Action 3. Prelude to Genocide of Hindus and Sikhs 4. March, 1947. 5. Note on Attack on Gurdwara Dehra Sahib 6. The Gandhi - Jinnah Appeal for Peace 7. Frontier Province and D. I. Khan 8. Round about August 15, 1947 9. Amritsar 10. West Punjab Ablaze 11. Sind 12. Did Sikhs (And Hindus) Voluntarily Leave Pakistan? 13. Did The Sikhs Have A Plan? Appendix - Atrocities 1 to 200 Appendix - Atrocities 201 to 400 Appendix - Atrocities 401 to 592