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Sikh people eating food at a relief camp at Khalsa college in Amritsar following unrest in the wake of the Partition of India and Pakistan.

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A destroyed building in the Katra Jaimal Singh area of Amritsar during unrest following the Making of India and Pakistan by doing Partition of Punjab

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Indian soldiers walking through the debris of a building in the Chowk Bijli Wala area of Amristar, during Unrest at the time of Partition of Punjab to Make India and Pakistan.
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Refugee stalls demolished in Lodhi Colony, in Delhi,1950 during Unrest at the time of Partition India and Pakistan.
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Refugees at the Kingsway Camp in Delhi, during 1950.
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Refugee camp in Delhi,year 1953.

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Train-loads of refugees arriving at Ambala station in post-Partition Punjab, during 1950.

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Homeless Refugees at Tihar village, in Delhi during 1950.
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Lord Mountbatten at a scene of communal riot at a village in Punjab in May 1947
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17 October 1947: Indian refugees crowd onto to trains after the creation of two independent states, India and Pakistan
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9 October 1947: Some Hindu/Sikh women and children arrive in Bombay after leaving Pakistan
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12 March 1947: Three wounded Indian policemen receive treatment following riots in Lahore, when Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims clashed over the decision to incorporate the region of Punjab into the state of Pakistan
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March 1947:A nurse holds two child victims of communal violence in #Amritsar.The children's mother was stabbed to death during rioting & they were rescued by a British military patrol and taken to a hospital for safety
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March 1947: Burned-out and ruined buildings in the Katra Jaimal Singh area of Amritsar after violence over partition of Punjab
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March 1947: Refugees gather at the #GoldenTemple in #Amritsar, the holiest shrine of Sikhism, after rioting over the destiny of Punjab
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March 1947: Afghan traders leave Amritsar with all their belongings, after rioting in the city over the fate of Punjab
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8 August 1947:A delegation of Sikhs leave Downing Street in London, after presenting a petition calling for the whole of the Punjab region to be included in the state of India,rather than Pakistan
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Golden Temple (Sri Harmandir Sahib), the holiest shrine of Sikhism, after communal riots in Amritsar,during the Partition of India and Pakistan March 1947. (Image: Getty Images)
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The burned-out Hall Bazaar shopping street after communal riots in Amritsar, Punjab, during the Partition of Punjab,March 1947. (Image:Getty Images)
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An armoured car of the Wiltshire Regiment leaving City Police headquarters on a peace-keeping patrol after communal riots in Amritsar, Punjab,March1947
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Telephone linesmen restoring communications after riots in Amritsar, the holy city of the Sikhs in Punjab in March 1947. (Image: Getty Images)
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IMAGE: Edwina Mountbatten tours the riot-affected localities in Amritsar in May 1947. Photograph: photodivision.gov.in

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Lord Mountbatten visiting Kahuta, Thoa Khalsa and other villages in Rawalpindi District where Sikhs and Hindus were massacred by mobs. Date of this visit was May 8, 1947.
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A Sikh woman at a refugee camp in Rawalpindi, March 1947
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Mass Suicide by 93 Sikh Women of Rawalpindi, village Thoha Khalsa.
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In Thoha Khalsa, on March 12, 1947 after long and heroic resistance, 200 Sikhs were killed. The women were asked to embrace Islam, but 93 of them, old and young, decided to escape dishonor by drowning themselves in a well, which they did.

The Muslim invaders, aghast at this tragedy, fled from the place. A little later, the military arrived and rescued the survivors

The news of the massacre at Thoha flashed on national newspapers. The Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten visited the village to assess the situation firsthand.
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Life survives somehow ... and the survivors reached the safety of refugee camps in Delhi, India and lived to tell their stories.
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A Sikh family on the road to East Punjab in 1947.
Photograph: Margaret Bourke-White/The Life Picture Collection/Getty
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Clockwise from left: Abdur Rab Nishtar, Baldev Singh, Acharya Kirpalani, Vallabhai Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru, Louis Mountbatten, Mohammed Ali jinnah, and Liaquat Ali Khan.The butcher of Gurdaspur Lord Ismay is seated at the back
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A Sikh Girl did Joora on her Top head to look like a Sikh Boy
just to Hide her Looks of being Female ,
So that She can Save herself from Mob
But unfortunately, image Shows that She Is Dead.💔😞😥
Horror Scenes😥😥😥
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A Sikh family of four females proceed towards East Punjab from the newly created Pakistan in 1947, Illustrated London News
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Milestone shows Two Cities which are so Close Yet Far...😔 in Punjab

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