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Communal Violence Refugee Camp British Colonial Colonial Rule Colonial Policy

‘No Home but in Memory’: The Legacies of Colonial Rule in the Punjab

Author(s): 
Pippa Virdee
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Springer
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230305700_8

"When the independence celebrations were taking place in August 1947 in New Delhi and Karachi, the regions of Punjab and Bengal were the scenes of massive murder and uprooting:
The Punjab was peaceful and prosperous only a short while ago. It is now witnessing scenes of horror and destruction and men have become worse than beasts. They have murdered their fellow beings with savage brutality and have spared neither women nor children. They have burnt houses and looted property. Even people fleeing in terror have been butchered."