12-31-2003, 02:42 AM
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There indeed was transfer of population. From 1947 till 1960 about 6,000 Muslim women were recovered from India who were supposedly kept by their abductors. Only 1500 brutalized Sikh and Hindu Women in Pakistan where whole villages opposed the police and volunteers who went in to free the abducted women were harassed.
Urvashi Butalia in her book "The other side of the silence" interviewes these former "Hindu and Sikh" women who explain that "Even after marriage we had to go to our husband's family, we leave the partition happenings to our fate"
The riots in Punjab started in March 1947, that was about 15-20 days later then in Bengal (late February 1947). The famous incident of Thoa Khalsa occured on 13th March 1947. What happened here was is as following
Hindus and Sikhs started gathering in the village of Thoa Khalsa that is in Tehsil Kahuta, District Rawalpindi by about 11th March more then 6000 Hindus and Sikhs had gathered in this small village of about 500 people. They created small defenses (thorn bushes, mud brick walls, etc) as well as collected food. Village already had 2-3 sweet water wells. 20-30,000 muslims sorrounded this village on 12th March and abducted one particular girl. After this incident the male members started murdering their sisters and daughters. Infants were given opium mixed with water, while young girls were beheaded. Muslims couldn't broke through the cordon but they kept trying, Sikhs and Hindus had 2-3 guns and some ammunition as well as 200 or so Kirpans. Women decided that if Muslims broke through the cordon they will jump in the well to save their honour. Muslims broke through and over 184 women committed suicide by jumping into the well along with their children.
Nehru visited this spot in late March and wept at the well. The custom of Jauhar was repeated again here in thoa Khalsa and only god knows how many more such histories will be repeated. This custom (where women kill themselves to save their honour) is a time tested custom of India.
kull--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/aaskull.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='aaskull.gif' /><!--endemo--> There indeed was transfer of population. From 1947 till 1960 about 6,000 Muslim women were recovered from India who were supposedly kept by their abductors. Only 1500 brutalized Sikh and Hindu Women in Pakistan where whole villages opposed the police and volunteers who went in to free the abducted women were harassed.
Urvashi Butalia in her book "The other side of the silence" interviewes these former "Hindu and Sikh" women who explain that "Even after marriage we had to go to our husband's family, we leave the partition happenings to our fate"
The riots in Punjab started in March 1947, that was about 15-20 days later then in Bengal (late February 1947). The famous incident of Thoa Khalsa occured on 13th March 1947. What happened here was is as following
Hindus and Sikhs started gathering in the village of Thoa Khalsa that is in Tehsil Kahuta, District Rawalpindi by about 11th March more then 6000 Hindus and Sikhs had gathered in this small village of about 500 people. They created small defenses (thorn bushes, mud brick walls, etc) as well as collected food. Village already had 2-3 sweet water wells. 20-30,000 muslims sorrounded this village on 12th March and abducted one particular girl. After this incident the male members started murdering their sisters and daughters. Infants were given opium mixed with water, while young girls were beheaded. Muslims couldn't broke through the cordon but they kept trying, Sikhs and Hindus had 2-3 guns and some ammunition as well as 200 or so Kirpans. Women decided that if Muslims broke through the cordon they will jump in the well to save their honour. Muslims broke through and over 184 women committed suicide by jumping into the well along with their children.
Nehru visited this spot in late March and wept at the well. The custom of Jauhar was repeated again here in thoa Khalsa and only god knows how many more such histories will be repeated. This custom (where women kill themselves to save their honour) is a time tested custom of India.