Rajmohan Gandhi

“About ten to twelve million people were forced to leave their homes and cross the new border.102”

— Rajmohan Gandhi

“Probably between half a million and eight hundred thousand in all were killed in Punjab in 1947.”

— Rajmohan Gandhi

“Lajpat Rai, by this time a member of the Central Assembly. Writing a series of articles in the Tribune (November and December…

— Rajmohan Gandhi

“between March and August there was a steady flow of urban and rural Sikhs and Hindus from Rawalpindi, Multan, Attock, Lahore and…

— Rajmohan Gandhi

“Cutting losses was the watchword, as was throwing responsibility onto the shoulders of Indians. ‘You asked us to quit. We will oblige.…

— Rajmohan Gandhi

“By this momentous resolution the Congress had conceded Pakistan, while also insisting that east Punjab would stay out of it. (The implied…

— Rajmohan Gandhi

“On 8 March, pressed by Punjab’s Sikh and Hindu leaders and shaken by the violence in Amritsar and Multan (apparently it had…

— Rajmohan Gandhi

“On 3 March, after Sikh and Hindu MLAs refused to support an alternative League ministry, which therefore could not be formed, Master…

— Rajmohan Gandhi

“Battle-itch, hate, contempt and greed. The ingredients were waiting to be utilized, and a strategy presented itself to John Lawrence. Recall, with…

— Rajmohan Gandhi

“His verdict on Gurdaspur would remain the most controversial. Muslims (inclusive of Ahmadiyyas, whose founder belonged to the district) constituted a slight…

— Rajmohan Gandhi

“Yet, the frenzied spirit that was also abroad destroyed around 2,500 lives in Punjab in that month, including that of one of…

— Rajmohan Gandhi

“In almost every place, however, lives were saved because ingenious or brave help came from the other side, while other lives were…

— Rajmohan Gandhi

“Arson was frequent in Lahore and Amritsar. Between 14 April and 14 July, there were 495 attempts in Lahore to burn non-Muslim…

— Rajmohan Gandhi

“After the four Indian judges had neutralized one another by their separate and contradictory opinions, Radcliffe gave his own binding decisions: Lyallpur,…

— Rajmohan Gandhi