Partition of Punjab
The 1947 partition of the Punjab divided it into two parts east Punjab and west Punjab. The name Punjab, compound of two words, panj(five) and ab(water) means the land of five rivers namely Sutlej, Beas, Ravi, Jhelum and chenab. But in 1947, Punjab had been divided and the larger area of the land 158,347 square km went to Pakistan and the remaining 95,687 km square in India.It was a massive violence in which large number of population had been exchanged.Around 10 millions people were affected with this violence. Everyone lost their homes, land and shops and move to other side.It become notorious in the history as the bloody battlefield in which millions of people were killed without any reason. There are various views on the partition of Punjab, one of them the clashes ...
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