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What if that wedding date is just a blooper?

Will they make such a blunder knowingly when their main concept is partition?

On June 3, 1947, It was already established that British India will be divided into two nations on 15 August 1947. Then how come these people are not aware of it till 7th of August (Since the wedding is next week)?

How come Raizadas are still living in Karachi when its fate was already sealed that it would go to Pakistan?

How come there is no news of independence and all those riots?

Am I being too logical here🤪

A week before Independence, Chris Everett, head of the CID in Punjab who had studied law with me in London, advised me to get out of Lahore. We picked up whatever we could in our hands, handed the keys of the house to a Muslim friend, Manzur Qadir, and joined the stream of Hindu and Sikh refugees going out of Pakistan into India. Escorted by six Baluch constables, my wife and I took a train to Kalka to join our two children, who had been sent ahead to their grandparents in Kasauli. We came across convoys of Muslim refugees fleeing from India into Pakistan. We heard terrible stories of murder, rape and arson. I’ve heard that rioters who had come to loot my house in Lahore and had been beaten off by my friend had got away with my white leghorns, which happened to be in the garden. We had no doubt of the fate that had befallen them. Then I realized that the world I had lived in and whose continuance I had taken for granted had ceased to exist.

I arrived in Delhi on 13 August 1947. The next night I was amongst the crowd outside Parliament House chanting “Bharat Mata ki Jai.” I saw Lord Luis Mountbatten lower the Union Jack as the last viceroy of British India and hoist the Indian tricolour as the first Governor-General of free India. I heard jubilant crowds singing in the streets. I saw English officers carried aloft on shoulders by enthusiastic young men—there was an unbelievable burst of friendship towards the English. But there was an element of unreality in the celebrations because the killing and looting went on.

Source: https://qz.com/india/1355466/khushwant-singh-recalls-lahore-before-indias-1947-partition/

1947; August, The Gory Climax or the August Anarchy

1947; August 6: More than sixty people, essentially Muslims, were declared killed in Amritsar district, allegedly by Sikhs opposing Partition as it would divide their community and reduce them to a mere minority in both new countries (Jeffrey, 1974: 502).

1947; August 8: Muslims retaliated and killed seventy-four Hindus and Sikhs near Jalalabad, north of the Ludhiana-Ferozepur road, in Ferozepur District (Jeffrey, 1974: 503). During the first week of August, casualties are estimated at an average daily killing of about 100 people with sporadic raids killing 70 to 80 people (Brass, 2003: 87).

1947; August 13 to 19: Violence peaked during this week.In addition to derailment – the first case being the one of a “Pakistani Special” train carrying Pakistani government employees and their families from Delhi to Karachi, next to Patiala State in East Punjab, killing one woman and one child (Aiyar, 1998: 18: Hansen, 2002: 14) – attacks on train and stabbing of the passengers began. Lahore train station also became the scene of bloody carnages. On August 13, 43 non-Muslims were stabbed in the Mughalpura Railway Workshops. On August 14, 35 Sikhs were stabbed in Lahore station. On August 15, a train was held up near Wazirabad. On August 15 to 16, a Pakistani Special train was derailed next to Amritsar. Two train derailments occurred in Sialkot between August 14 and 17. Three trains were attacked by Muslims mobs in the Wazirabad-Sialkot area. Two attacks on train happened in Rawalpindi area. (Aiyar, 1998: 18-19) Notwithstanding the train attacks, bands of armed men were going on raiding villages and killing their inhabitants.

1947; August 26: A group of Pakistani Baluchi soldiers killed around 10,000 non-Muslim civilians in Sheikhupura and raped girls and women so as to dishonor the whole community and to prove its inability to protect them (Hansen, 2002: 15).

1947; September 3: Bands of Muslims and Hindus fought each other at Harnoil in Mianwali district. Muslims were supported by Pakistani military and used tanks against their opponents. The total death toll is over 3,000 (Hansen, 2002: 17: Kirpal Singh, 1972: 150).

1947; September 21: A refugee train was attacked during the night by armed Muslims at Harbanspura making 1,500 non-Muslim victims (Aiyar, 1998: 21). Finally, by October 1947, the situation improved in both parts of Punjab. However, if law and order was relatively reinstated, the burden of the rehabilitation of refugees remained till the end of 1947.

Source: https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/fr/document/thematic-chronology-mass-violence-pakistan-1947-2007.html

Originally posted by: ananya3129

What if that wedding date is just a blooper?

Will they make such a blunder knowingly when their main concept is partition?

On June 3, 1947, It was already established that British India will be divided into two nations on 15 August 1947. Then how come these people are not aware of it till 7th of August (Since the wedding is next week)?

How come Raizadas are still living in Karachi when its fate was already sealed that it would go to Pakistan?

How come there is no news of independence and all those riots?

Am I being too logical here🤪

Common people were trying to figure out the borders as it was only on August 17th that there was an official announcement made on the status of some of the cities, notably Lahore. The Sindh region was known because the League had already taken it into consideration when they made their appeal as early as Aug 1946. But the route between Sindh and Gujarat/Rajasthan was not as bloody as the one in Punjab. Riots there are not known that widely because most had already taken note and left for better pastures. Yes, we are being too logical and expecting too much historical accuracy from a tv show. I have spent hours looking up material that now seems baseless in context, but I guess it is nice to learn in the process ❤️

A common question which India Office Records curators receive from researchers is what sources there are in the records for the Bengal and Punjab Boundary Commissions of 1947. The Boundary Commissions have featured previously in an Untold Lives story. The Commissions were created in 1947 for the purpose of determining the new border between India and Pakistan following independence from British rule. Both were chaired by the British lawyer Sir Cyril Radcliffe. The Radcliffe Line became the border between India and Pakistan when the Award was published on 17 August 1947, two days after independence.

Source: https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2021/01/sources-for-the-1947-bengal-and-punjab-boundary-commissions-.html

Thanks Tannu for sharing all the information about partition here. It truly is heartbreaking to read about all the things that happened during that era 😭

AmDheer Edit on yesterday's episode

Randheer desperation was shown really well

Here comes our pretty dulhan

https://twitter.com/meredilmein/status/1369443011181043718?s=21

Karwado karwado AmDheer ki shaadi karwado

Humari maange puri karo

Originally posted by: Rainbow99

AmDheer Edit on yesterday's episode

Randheer desperation was shown really well