The document discusses the partition of India in 1947 and its complex consequences. It notes that the partition benefited some Punjabi Muslims economically and politically, while Punjabi Hindus and Sikhs suffered the most losses. However, over time social hierarchies reestablished themselves, and now the wealthy Muslim elite exploit the poor similarly to how non-Muslims exploited poor Muslims in pre-partition Punjab. The document argues that imperial powers were the ultimate winners of partition, as they destabilized the region by stoking religious divisions for political control.

2. It was a great moment to listen to Prof. Dr. Rajmohan
Gandhi in December 2013.
I was an ardent fan of Dr Rajmohan since I read his
Understanding the Muslim Mind in 1997-98 .
The book was a collection of brilliantly incisive and subtle
political sketches of key Muslim political leaders of Indo Pak
from 1858 to 1951.

5. I was very inspired to learn from Dr Rajmohan that he had
quoted in his Punjab book under discussion today , from my
book Sepoy Rebellion of 1857-59 Reinterpreted printed in
1998 and also serialized in Defence Journal from July 1999
to April 2002.
Sepoy Rebellion of 1857-59 Reinterpreted Paperback
by Agha Humayun Amin (Author)
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Reinterpreted-Humayun/dp/1480085707/ref=sr_1_14?
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The topic of Punjab is sensitive in India and Pakistan
because of 1947 massacres which killed around
500,000 or more people.
By and large speakers who discussed the book were
non committal and tactful .
Pakistani security agencies who failed in actual
intelligence operational work in all wars scanned the
seminar venue.

6. Indian speakers who were very cordial in discussion with
all of us took our e mail contacts but never contacted us !
Now about Punjab history and its partition in 1947 ?
How to sum it up !
Punjabi Hindus who lost the most economically and socially
bear responsibility the most for it .
Simply because they regarded Punjabi Muslims , Punjabs
54 % majority as socially inferior and in 1920s declared that
if ever Muslims in Punjab were allowed actual 54 %
electoral share in elections Punjab should be divided ! And
they lost the most !
Somehow except Prof Rajmohan everyone missed the
point that it was British manipulation that won !
And it is ironic that today India and Pakistan despite all
claims of peace are actually heading towards a major war !

7. Somehow no one in the whole gathering was admitting that
British policy had the last laugh in 1947 by keeping India
and Pakistan unstable by mutual fear for all times to come !
Partition of India was a victory for opportunists , specially in
Pakistan.
First it was the Hindu who was bad and immediately after
partition West Pakistanis started conspiring against Bengali
Muslims as they were regarded as racially inferior , just like
Punjabi Hindus regarded Muslims in 1920s.So Bengali
majority of 55 % had to be undermined and it was reduced
in 1956 to 50 % . Reduced with craftiness of a pre partition
hindu as Muslims claimed before 1947 and wit coercive
force of a West Pakistani army ! And West Pakistanis were
in majority in army not because they were more martial but
simply because they were most shameless collaborators of
British !
And now it is turn of Balochis !
All this makes one conclude that we are a really pathetic
lot !

8. Personally as a family I cannot say if we derived any social
or financial benefit from partition of India !
May be Nawaz Sharif did ! Or may be many Punjabis or
Indian refugees from Bombay etc who occupied hindu
properties .
If Hindus despised Muslims in Punjab before 1947 now may
be muslim iron smiths and cobblers who became rich
despise financially less affluent Muslims !
How man acts ? Yellow historians will say that Sikhs killed
Muslims and then Muslims killed Sikhs in retaliation ?
Things were far more complex ?
The Punjabi Sikhs and Hindus were the richest and
strongest families of pre partition Punjab . Thus the intense
comunal hatred between Muslims and non Muslims ! Today
the rich Muslims of Pakistan are what Sikhs and Hindus

9. were in 1947 ! The rich exploit the poor so the hatred now
in Pakistan is more class hatred than religious hatred !
The Muslim elite has as shamelessly exploited the poor
Muslims as the Sikhs and Hindus ! Perhaps even worse !
Punjabis in Pakistan regard Baloch as inferior ! Sunnis rear
Shia as inferior !
May be LUMS Dr Naqvi regarded me or anyone less
socially elevated as inferior , just like a non Muslim
professor in Punjab regarded a Muslim before 1947 !
Only faces changed . Social differences remained the same
and Imperialism in any case won !
The best Jinnah and his successors could think was to beg
for US largesse to save Pakistan from India !
And US largesse came in 1954 !

10. Just like a Knight in shining armor saved Muslims of Deli
,Punjab and Frontier Pashtuns from rape by hindu
Marathas in 1803 and 1849 !
In 1849 punjabi and pashtun mullas in sermons praised
English company as muslims saviors !
And now Chinese largesse.
If Jinnah feared a Hindu army in united India to chastise
Muslims same happened in Bengal in 1971 and in
Baluchistan !
And today Saudi Arabia wants Pakistani sunni muslim
mercenaries to kill shias in Iraq and Syria ! It appears that a
movement has started and Pakistans so called deal with
Pakistani Taliban is linked to sending these neurotic
characters to Falluja and Syria !
Its the role that you occupy and not religion that decides the
issue !

11. Economics decides all as Marx stated !
The greatest mystery is that it was the Punjabi Hindus
who demanded partition of Punjab in case Muslims
were allotted representation in the Punjab legislature
as per population in 1920s !
What fools !
That is what finally led to partition !
Without Punjab being with the Muslim League there
would have been no partition of India !
The greatest losers of partition were the Punjabi
Hindus and Sikhs both monetarily and politically and
the greatest beneficiaries were the Punjabi Muslims
both monetarily and politically ?

12. But then history takes strange paths !
Today the Baloch are facing a war of genocide by
Muslims of Pakistan !
Ahmadis are being killed for being Ahmadis ! Punjabis
Sindhis and Pashtuns are unsafe in Karachi !
A Punjabi cannot enter Balochistan without threat to
his life !
A Shia is more unsafe in Pakistan than in India ! While
gunship helicopters were used in Paktika in
Afghanistan by Soviets today Pakistani gunship
helicopters are spraying fire in Waziristan ?
All these needs to be reconciled ?
Have things or we changed ?

13. Not all gained ? My great grandfather had five squares
or so in 1900 in Lyallpur ? Today it is zero acres !
A class of carpet baggers gained all ! Characters like
the Muslim Memons of Bombay or the Muslim Chamars
involved in cleaning hides now known as Chiniotis and
Sehgals ! So many , ironsmits ,barbers ,peons !!!
And now these regard poorer Muslims as low castes !
Much of this social enineerin was done by pakistans
military , ayub,zia ,musarraf !
And most stupid creation of paki military were the
clown mad dog islamist extremists which may prove
Pakistans most serious destabilizing factor ! All
created for US Dollars !

14. Adamji was no philanthropist when he gave a blank
cheque to the Muslim League ! The Muslim feudals
heavily in debt to the Hindu Banias and only saved
thanks to Alienation of Land Act of Samuel Septimus
Thorburn !
Only 5 % voted in partition !
Nationalism is deception ! Politics is personal interest !
Or was it all about gaining political and material
advantages based on ethnicity ?
The question is that Asif Zardari or Pakistans generals
or Pakistans ten thousand families are not Hindus or
Sikhs but in their greed they are worse than Hindus and
Sikhs !
The game was about power and not religion then and
the same today !

15. Egos matter ! Ethnicity matters ! Class matters !
Religion is only a tool used by the first three !
QAFLAY LUT GAYAY BARBAD HO GAYAY TO KIA
HUA ,
MUTAMAIN HAIN QAFLA SAALAAR APNAY KAAM
SAY !
HAFEEZ JULLUNDHRI IN SHEER DISGUST WITH THE
PUNJAB MASSACRES AT THE TIME OF PARTITION OF
INDIA

38. Sepoy Rebellion in Columbia University Library

39. Sepoy Rebellion in LUMS Library

40. Pakistan Army till 1965 in LUMS Library