Divide and Quit, Volume 1University of California Press, 1999 |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
The Genesis of Pakistan I | 11 |
The Punjab and Pakistan | 29 |
The Cabinet Mission | 42 |
The Mountbatten Plan | 65 |
The Punjab and Partition | 71 |
Bahawalpur State | 97 |
Journey across the Punjab | 114 |
Restoring OrderII | 159 |
Disturbances in Bahawalpur City | 190 |
Events in Rahim Yar Khan | 225 |
Resettlement | 247 |
Summing Up | 261 |
Note on Casualties | 293 |
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Common terms and phrases
accepted Akalis Amritsar armed arrangements asked Bahawal Bahawalnagar Bahawalpur Army Bahawalpur district bazaar Bengal Bikanir British Cabinet Mission canal casualties Chishtian Constituent Assembly constitution danger Delhi demand for Pakistan disturbances division East Punjab escort evacuation Fazlur Rahman fear felt Ferozepur force Fort Abbas frontier Gandhi Government of India Gurmani hand Harunabad Hasilpur headworks Hindumalkot Hindus Hindus and Sikhs hope houses incoming refugees Interim Government jamadar Jinnah Khairpur Khizar killed Lahore large number later leave Leghari loot Lord Mountbatten lorries Macleodganj Road majority massacres miles military Minchinabad Minister Mohammad Mountbatten Multan Muslim League Nawab non-Muslim officers police political population province Punjab Government Qaimpur Rahim Yar Khan railway revenue rifles seemed settlement side Sikhs Simla Singh Sir Sikander soon staff station Suleimanke Sutlej tahsildar thanedar thought told took town train Unionist Party V. P. Menon Viceroy villages West whole Yar Khan district