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Now It Can Be Told
‘Now It Can Be Told’ is the story of deception and glory which some political leaders in India surrounded themselves with to cover their erroneous policy decisions and acts of omission and commission, which were responsible for plunging Bengal and Punjab into troubled waters.
After Partition, Hindus of Punjab in general and Sikhs in particular have complained about their problems remaining unaddressed; they blame the leaders for throwing them to the wolves in their quest for grabbing power.
The Sikhs have suffered the most grievously. From being rulers of Punjab that spanned from Delhi to Khyber Pass, a little more than a century ago; they have for the past two years become wanderers. Unable to call a single district of Punjab as their home.
Can there be a single instance cited, where a strong and large religious community like the Sikhs lost the Holiest of its places to others?
This book is a faithful account of day-to-day occurrences in Lahore and other parts of Punjab during the critical period of 1947 when the fate of India was being decided by its leaders and at a time when Punjabi Sikhs and Hindus underwent untold miseries and hardship.
This book should be treated more as a souvenir of Partition than as a treatise on history.
This book is being reproduced without any editing or changes.
It is an important document for understanding the circumstances and facts during Partition.
Only the lot of the refugees is unenviable. The glow of freedom is certainly not found on their faces. They have lost their everything; their homes and hearths, their kith and kin, their properties, moveable and immovable, their religious shrines and sacred places hallowed by the blood of their martyrs and their accustomed ways of life and living. With their scanty resources dwindling fast, with the snail-like pace of rehabilitation and with the blasted career of their children staring them in the face, they are living in the daily dread of worse and worse things to come.
The objective of writing this book is to rouse the conscience of the country, giving it a glimpse of the hell which the prosperous and proud people of North-West Pakistan had to suffer in those critical days and to appeal to the leaders to learn from their past mistakes and take determined and suitable measures in hand to undo the evil effects of the greatest ‘wrong’ of history.
After Partition, Hindus of Punjab in general and Sikhs in particular have complained about their problems remaining unaddressed; they blame the leaders for throwing them to the wolves in their quest for grabbing power.
The Sikhs have suffered the most grievously. From being rulers of Punjab that spanned from Delhi to Khyber Pass, a little more than a century ago; they have for the past two years become wanderers. Unable to call a single district of Punjab as their home.
Can there be a single instance cited, where a strong and large religious community like the Sikhs lost the Holiest of its places to others?
This book is a faithful account of day-to-day occurrences in Lahore and other parts of Punjab during the critical period of 1947 when the fate of India was being decided by its leaders and at a time when Punjabi Sikhs and Hindus underwent untold miseries and hardship.
This book should be treated more as a souvenir of Partition than as a treatise on history.
This book is being reproduced without any editing or changes.
It is an important document for understanding the circumstances and facts during Partition.
Only the lot of the refugees is unenviable. The glow of freedom is certainly not found on their faces. They have lost their everything; their homes and hearths, their kith and kin, their properties, moveable and immovable, their religious shrines and sacred places hallowed by the blood of their martyrs and their accustomed ways of life and living. With their scanty resources dwindling fast, with the snail-like pace of rehabilitation and with the blasted career of their children staring them in the face, they are living in the daily dread of worse and worse things to come.
The objective of writing this book is to rouse the conscience of the country, giving it a glimpse of the hell which the prosperous and proud people of North-West Pakistan had to suffer in those critical days and to appeal to the leaders to learn from their past mistakes and take determined and suitable measures in hand to undo the evil effects of the greatest ‘wrong’ of history.
224 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2020
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March 29, 2024
The book which was banned by Pandit Nehru speaks about the horrors faced by the Hindus and Sikhs in the West Punjab before, during and after partition.
The police and the military of Pakistan indulge in mass murders and loot of Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan.
The book speaks of how Lahore was manipulatively conceded to Pakistan.
It speaks about how only the RSS came to the rescue of the people in Pakistan or the refugees in India.
It shares many horrifying stories.
The police and the military of Pakistan indulge in mass murders and loot of Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan.
The book speaks of how Lahore was manipulatively conceded to Pakistan.
It speaks about how only the RSS came to the rescue of the people in Pakistan or the refugees in India.
It shares many horrifying stories.
June 2, 2025
This is a Must-READ for every Bharatiya. How Islamists in guile for supremacy and power usurped Sikh-Hindu properties in Lahore during partition, how riots were conducted in different parts of Akhand Bharat, how weak Congress Govt was in safeguarding non muslims is well elucidated. What stands out in this book is that its not delving into empty sloganeering. Each and every detail in the book is well illustrated with backing facts and statistics.
July 21, 2024
Eyeopener - Modern Indian History enthusiasts must read it. Sets a base to understand certain issues, that currently exist in Punjab and overall appeasement politics of Congress.
August 22, 2026
For decades, the horrors of Partition were pushed aside, sanitised, or simply left out of the national conversation. The violence, displacement, suffering, and loss endured by millions were often reduced to a footnote in the story of Independence.
The Congress establishment, aided by sections of the Left and liberal intelligentsia, helped shape a version of history in which uncomfortable questions were discouraged and inconvenient accounts were dismissed. Hindu refugees who had lost their homes, families, and livelihoods were too often expected to remain silent in the name of national unity. Those who spoke openly about their experiences could be branded communal or reactionary. This was not merely a dispute over history books. It was also about whose memories were allowed to survive and whose were expected to disappear.
Nehru’s government banned this book in 1950. That decision itself raises an important question: why was a book dealing with one of the most traumatic episodes in the subcontinent’s history considered something that had to be suppressed? The horrors of Partition deserve to be remembered honestly not to reopen old wounds, but to ensure that the suffering of millions is neither erased nor sanitised for political convenience.
The Congress establishment, aided by sections of the Left and liberal intelligentsia, helped shape a version of history in which uncomfortable questions were discouraged and inconvenient accounts were dismissed. Hindu refugees who had lost their homes, families, and livelihoods were too often expected to remain silent in the name of national unity. Those who spoke openly about their experiences could be branded communal or reactionary. This was not merely a dispute over history books. It was also about whose memories were allowed to survive and whose were expected to disappear.
Nehru’s government banned this book in 1950. That decision itself raises an important question: why was a book dealing with one of the most traumatic episodes in the subcontinent’s history considered something that had to be suppressed? The horrors of Partition deserve to be remembered honestly not to reopen old wounds, but to ensure that the suffering of millions is neither erased nor sanitised for political convenience.
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