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Gurbachan Singh Talib Quotes

1911–1986 India

Sardar Gurbachan Singh Talib (7 April 1911 – 9 April 1986) was a Sikh scholar and author, who held the prestigious Guru Nanak Chair of Sikh Studies. He received the Padma Bhushan in 1985.

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Also known as: Talib, S. G. S.

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Muslim leaders deliberately spread false and baseless atrocity stories about East Punjab, and incited Muslims everywhere to murder and drive out Hindus and Sikhs.

Muslim League Attack on the Sikhs and Hindus in Punjab, 1947 (1950)

Here follow unprintable details of rape and brutality to these helpless women at the bands of Pakistan Military and Muslim goondas.

Muslim League Attack on the Sikhs and Hindus in Punjab, 1947 (1950)

In many places Muslim pirs directed these attacks and characterized them as a holy war waged against infidels, that is Hindus and Sikhs.

Muslim League Attack on the Sikhs and Hindus in Punjab, 1947 (1950)

The police were not merely neutral in this, but were planning for, leading and aiding the Muslim aggressors.

Muslim League Attack on the Sikhs and Hindus in Punjab, 1947 (1950)

Even women and children were not spared, and were ruthlessly cut to pieces.

Muslim League Attack on the Sikhs and Hindus in Punjab, 1947 (1950)

There, Hindus and Sikhs were simply waylaid and killed or their houses attacked and their property and womenfolk carried away.

Muslim League Attack on the Sikhs and Hindus in Punjab, 1947 (1950)

Here too the curfew operated as everywhere in Pakistan. Muslims were free to move about during curfew hours, to set fire to houses of non-Muslims and to commit murders.

Muslim League Attack on the Sikhs and Hindus in Punjab, 1947 (1950)

All Sikhs to a man were killed here. Children were not spared. The women immolated themselves to escape dishonour at the hands of the Muslim marauders.

Muslim League Attack on the Sikhs and Hindus in Punjab, 1947 (1950)

In Sukho, where stiff resistance was put up by Sikhs one girls’ school and one Gurdwara were burnt. In Daultala too, very stiff resistance was put up by Sikhs.

Muslim League Attack on the Sikhs and Hindus in Punjab, 1947 (1950)

In the month of November, Hindu and Sikh girls brought by Pathan raiders from Kashmir were sold in the bazars of Jhelum.

Muslim League Attack on the Sikhs and Hindus in Punjab, 1947 (1950)

In such a province the life of the minorities is not worth a day’s purchase, if the majority decides to make things hot for them. (53)

Muslim League Attack on the Sikhs and Hindus in Punjab, 1947 (1950)

The invaders marched on to their attacks fearlessly and openly, with drums beating and with a large display of firearms, sometimes even modem automatic weapons. (80)

Muslim League Attack on the Sikhs and Hindus in Punjab, 1947 (1950)

At Nara, in the tehsil of Kahuta, Sikh women and children were burnt alive, and the women were tortured in ways most devilishly ingenious and sadistic, which it is not possible for any decent human being to describe.

Muslim League Attack on the Sikhs and Hindus in Punjab, 1947 (1950)

Maddened with the zeal for exterminating the ‘Kafirs’ and making room for the establishment of an Islamic State in Northern India, the League-led Muslim mobs combed hundreds of villages as has already been related above, in the Rawalpindi District.

Muslim League Attack on the Sikhs and Hindus in Punjab, 1947 (1950)

Curfew was imposed, which confined Hindus and Sikhs to their houses while Muslims went about freely, setting fire with police help to Hindu and Sikh houses, killing and looting.

Muslim League Attack on the Sikhs and Hindus in Punjab, 1947 (1950)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gurbachan Singh Talib (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.