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Since the partition of the sub-continent had been decided, special meetings of the Western and Eastern Section of the Legislative Assembly were held on 23 June 1947 to decide whether or not the Province of the Punjab be partitioned. After voting on both sides, partition was decided and the existing Punjab Legislative Assembly was also divided ...
The Partition of India in 1947 split the former Raj province of Punjab; the mostly Muslim western part became the Pakistani province of West Punjab and the mostly Sikh and Hindu eastern part became the Indian province of Punjab. Many Sikhs and Hindus lived in the west, and many Muslims lived in the east, and so partition saw many people ...
This puts the total of missing people, due to partition-related migration along the Punjab border, to around 2.2 million. [178] Another study of the demographic consequences of partition in the Punjab region using the 1931, 1941 and 1951 censuses concluded that between 2.3 and 3.2 million people went missing in the Punjab. [179]
The riots also lead to the Congress and Sikh leaders of the Punjab demanding its partition. [70] On 8 March, the Congress Working Committee passed a resolution to partition the Punjab. [71] [72] Survivors identified attackers by their names, occupations and home villages in FIRs after the massacres. [73]
East Punjab was a province of India from 1947 until 1950. It consisted parts of the Punjab province that remained in India following the partition of the province between the new dominions of Pakistan and the Indian Union by the Radcliffe Commission in 1947.
The Sikh population, after the partition of Punjab, had become a majority population in a contiguous, strategic land area for the first time in its history, [25] [26]: 369 with a new socio-political position, [9] [21] This enabled the Akali Dal to focus on expressing unencumbered Sikh political needs, free from the politics of the former Muslim ...
From this day onward, Punjab was engulfed in such bloodied communal riots that the history had never witnessed before. Eventually, Punjab had to be partitioned into the Indian Punjab and Pakistani Punjab. In the process, over a million people were massacred, millions more were forced to cross-over and to become refugees while thousands of women ...
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]