"Doberan had a population of seventeen hundred of whom a very large majority were Sikhs. On the morning of March 10 swarms of armed raiders from the neighbouring villages began to collect in front of Doberan The non Muslim residents sought shelter in the local Gurdwara The raiders began to loot the houses thus deserted and set fire to them. The Sikhs had a few firearms and fought the raiders from the Gurdwara They however suffered heavily and soon ran out of ammunition. The raiders asked them to surrender their arms and promised not to molest them. About three hundred of them came out and they were placed in the house of one Barkat Singh. During the night the roof was ripped open, kerosene oil was poured in and those inside were burnt alive In the morning the doors of the Gurdwara were broken open. The remaining Sikhs dashed out sword in hand and died fighting the raiders. Very few escaped from this hideous massacre."
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Khosla G. D. (1989). Stern reckoning : a survey of the events leading up to and following the partition of india. Oxford University Press. 110
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