Status Updates From Sikh Nationalism (New Appro...

The work of activists like Jaswant Singh Khalra, who investigated "mass cremations of militants who had 'disappeared' during the insurgency" and who was murdered by the Punjab police in 1995, suggest that the "conservative estimate of thirty thousand deaths during the insurgency after 1984 need to be revised upwards. Even today, there are no agreed figures on the overall death rate that include the 'disappeared'."

Sikh leaders drew "from the Swiss example of power-sharing. By foregrounding minority rights, they identified the need for political autonomy that was so central to their tradition, which, they said, aspired 'never to dominate or accept the domination of another...'"
But, if partition was inevitable, 'The Sikh demand', Master Tara Singh insisted, 'is that Punjab is our homeland, our sacred land, our body and soul."