Balbir Singh was 7 years old during the partition of India. He recalls the partition causing religious tensions between Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs, which led to over 1-2 million deaths. While some groups received their own countries, like Pakistan and Bangladesh, Punjab was denied a separate nation despite the vote. Balbir knew a Muslim family that was forced to leave his village and later learned his Sikh wife's village in Pakistan was burned after she fled, though he did not directly witness any killings.
Balbir Singh was 7 years old during the partition of India. He recalls the partition causing religious tensions between Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs, which led to over 1-2 million deaths. While some groups received their own countries, like Pakistan and Bangladesh, Punjab was denied a separate nation despite the vote. Balbir knew a Muslim family that was forced to leave his village and later learned his Sikh wife's village in Pakistan was burned after she fled, though he did not directly witness any killings.
Balbir Singh was 7 years old during the partition of India. He recalls the partition causing religious tensions between Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs, which led to over 1-2 million deaths. While some groups received their own countries, like Pakistan and Bangladesh, Punjab was denied a separate nation despite the vote. Balbir knew a Muslim family that was forced to leave his village and later learned his Sikh wife's village in Pakistan was burned after she fled, though he did not directly witness any killings.
1:How old were you? : I was 7 year old when the partition happen in india 2: what were some of the reasons of the partition? : The reasons were land and religions and more thing 3: Why didn't punjab get it own country? : this reasons were that there was a guy that had a lot of factories over india so he vote no to the a country that punjud had so yeah this was one of the reasons 4: What were other country that ware once a pat of india our is?: paskaskin, punjabi, bangladesh, kimmar, naple, ware the the country and sante that were in india and so of them nd silt there. 5: Were there so people that you knew that were involved in the partitions: yes in my village there was a muslim family that had to leave the village because they were muslim. 6: Was there some killed our someone that you saw that got killed?. No i didn't see anyone one getting killed but my wife was sikh that lived pakistan and she had to move to india but after she left her village was burned but only the house that were hindu our sikhs. 7:Did the hindus kill sikhs?: oh yes they killed many people that were different race they wanted sikhs to go away so they killed them. 8. Did the partition help people?: no and yes it killed around 12 million people but the people did have there own counter but the sikhs did,not so no it did not help it just made it worse.