Partition

My father told this tale to me as we were driving back from our village to Delhi.

Our's is a small jat Sikh village in Punjab, the next village is a Rajput one and the village after that is the one settled by refugees from Pakistan. Before partition, it used to be a Muslim majority village. All were farmers who had managed to coexist peacefully for so long.

Rumors started doing rounds at the time of partition. Muslims were reported to be collecting with weapons in the house of the richest Muslim landlord. One of the village's idiots, while shitting in the fields, said he had seen a mob getting ready to attack our village. That nincompoop, from then on has been, (as he should be), recognized as a hero in our village. Rumormongering should always be rewarded.

The men of our village started organizing themselves into an armed group as well. A pitched but well matched battle was fought with no side winning.

Then a lone policeman showed up and...he was the only one with a revolver...and again as you should, instead of ensuring law and order, he took up the battle for his co religionists.

The Muslims were slaughtered.

I don't know what happened in the cities but in the villages, it was always about land, never about religion.

I often wonder about all who were caught on the wrong side of the border and choose to fight for their land rather than leave -the confusion, the uncertainty as to how the land that they had been tilling for generations was now no longer theirs.

It was a bad time.

this was a really bad time

That ws really hard time 😔 many ppl lost there lived ones.
Tfs

very hard and sad time😭

Just think guys we really live so good now but that time they struggle so hard to live ...we can't imagine about that situation 😭

Even Mika's family were slaughtered :((

I was reading about the short story, Lajwanti, on which this show is based and it really made me feel terrible. Women from both sides were kidnapped from their families and taken away. Lajwanti was too, by a man named Jumma. She was returned after a long time, wrapped in a hijab, but even though her husband accepted her happily and even started addressing her as Devi, he never treated her with the same happy go lucky attitude of their early times together. She never felt fully accepted as her husband did not want to hear of anything that had happened to her while in captivity. He asked her but one question if the guy beat her and she said no but that she was more terrified of that man's kindness than Sundar's anger. Sundar noticed his wife had returned fairer of skin and had put on weight whereas before the sun and hard work had made her skinny and tanned.
After reading that story, I am hoping they don't really base this story off of that sad short story.

^^ He called Gunwanti "Devi" in Thursday's episode. They have done a few change ups like this, giving a nod to the story but differently played out withinin the show.

Yes, he did call her Devi, I remember now. And her line about Sita no longer being required to take the Agni pariksha will be part of the story too in the future, I am sure.