When India was partitioned into two separate states in August 1947, the border between Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan was kept secret until the very last minute.
Punjab was split down the middle and many people did not if they would be living in Pakistan or India.
The decision of the man drawing the line was not just an administrative formality, it was a matter of life and death.
One million died and 15 million were displaced as Muslims fled to Pakistan, and Hindus and Sikhs headed in the opposite direction.
If you travel along Raiwind to Kasur railway line, you will find most of the villages named after Sikh's. One can still find several Sikh religious and residential buildings in these villages. But after the 1947 partition of India, not a single Sikh or Hindu was left behind in these villages.
I am standing at Roshan Bhila near Hado sehari village in Kasur district, before the partition, the majority here were Sikh Jatt from the Virik clan. There is one gurdwara remains also present in this village. But no Sikh family was left behind after the partition. In fact, the whole village got butchered.
This railway line played an important role during the partition of 1947 for relocating thousands of migrants from both sides of the border.
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