The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed: Unravelling the 1947 Tragedy Through Secret British Reports and First-Person Accounts

2795 Pages·2016·5.96 MB·English

by  Ishtiaq Ahmed

THE PUNJAB
BLOODIED,
PARTITIONED AND
CLEANSED
THE PUNJAB
BLOODIED,
PARTITIONED AND
CLEANSED

Unravelling the 1947 Tragedy through
Secret
British Reports and First Person
Accounts
Ishtiaq Ahmed
First published in 2011 by
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To my wife Meliha.
She is the bedrock of our family from
whom I and our boys,
Sahir and Selim, and their partners,
Ice and Helena, always draw strength
and support.