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History of Lahore. The recorded history of Lahore (Punjabi: لہور دی تریخ (Shahmukhi), ਲਹੌਰ ਦਾ ਇਤਹਾਸ (Gurmukhi); romanized: Làhaur dī tàrīk͟h) refers to the past history of the city of Lahore, the post-medieval cultural and political hub of the Punjab region. Today, the city is the capital of the Pakistani ...
The Lahore Resolution, [a] also called the Pakistan Resolution, was a formal political statement adopted by the All-India Muslim League on the occasion of its three-day general session in Lahore, Punjab, from 22 to 24 March 1940, calling for a separate homeland for the Muslims of India. It was written and prepared by a nine-member subcommittee ...
v. t. e. An attack on a railway train carrying Muslim refugees during the Partition of India was carried out at Amritsar in Indian Punjab on 22 September 1947. [1][2][3] Three thousand Muslim refugees were killed [1][2] and a further one thousand wounded. [4] Only one hundred passengers remained uninjured. [5]
v. t. e. Minar-e-Pakistan, where the bill of Lahore Resolution was passed on 23 March 1940. The Pakistan Movement was a political movement in the first half of the 20th century that aimed for the creation of Pakistan from the Muslim -majority areas of British India. It was connected to the perceived need for self-determination for Muslims under ...
Before partition, in 1947, the Walled City had a concentration of 48% Hindus, 38% Muslims and 12% Sikhs. Once Pakistan and India were formed - the area saw a mass exodus of Hindus and Sikhs, with the area now being populated primarily by the Punjabis from West Pakistan, immigrants from East Punjab ( Haryana , Himachal Pradesh and Punjab , of ...
The History of Pakistan precedes the country's independence in 1947. [ 1 ] Although Pakistan was created in 1947 as an independent country by the British [ 2 ] through the partition of British India, the history of Pakistan extends much further back and is intertwined with that of Afghanistan, India, and Iran.
The Radcliffe Line was the boundary demarcated by the two boundary commissions for the provinces of Punjab and Bengal during the Partition of India.It is named after Cyril Radcliffe, who, as the joint chairman of the two boundary commissions, had the ultimate responsibility to equitably divide 175,000 square miles (450,000 km 2) of territory with 88 million people.
Origins of Lahore. Rama fighting Lava and Kusha. A Hindu legend based on oral traditions holds that Lahore, known in ancient times as Nokhar (City of Lava in Sanskrit), [1] was founded by Prince Lava, [2] the son of the goddess Sita and Rama; Kasur was founded by his twin brother Prince Kusha. [3] To this day, Lahore Fort has a vacant Lava ...