The Punjab Partition Forum

  • Home

  • Forum

  • Blog

  • About

  • Contact

  • Members

  • More

    Use tab to navigate through the menu items.
    To see this working, head to your live site.
    • Categories
    • All Posts
    • My Posts
    Forum Post
    Aug 13, 2017
      ·  Edited: Aug 13, 2017

    Massacre at Gulchaman Gali, Ludhiana, July 1947

    in Online Articles & Books

    Our family lost its ancestral home and, within it, four family members. Of the three women one was blind and couldn’t leave the house without a guide. Two were nieces of my grandmother’s sister who had stopped off in Ludhiana on their way back to their village.

    We never found out what became of them. They were almost certainly abducted and forced into marriage with their abductors or, worse still, sold off to brothels. Dadi mourned their loss for years and wept bitterly whenever her sister came visiting. The old man was a distant cousin of my Dada, and a veteran from the days of the first world war. He was deaf in both ears, a legacy of his time at the front with an artillery regiment, which was probably why he never heard the alarm raised when the Jan Sangh marauders came.

    - "Becoming Pakistani" by Maruf Khwaja


    Link to article: https://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-multiculturalism/article_2051.jsp


    Map: https://www.punjabpartition.com/forum/geography/gulchaman-gali-ludhiana

    0 comments
    0
    0 comments

    © 2022 by Punjab Partition Forum

      Subscribe for new Updates