"The assailants stopped the arriving train by climbing on to the outer signal and raising it. Then the mob, concealed in Muslim houses along the railway track, fell upon the helpless Hindu and Sikh passengers, and murdered a good number, including women and children before the train could be restarted and brought to Amritsar station. Trains and lorries coining from Jullundur and Pathankot and Narowal were similarly attacked by Muslims of this suburb and Sikhs killed with great brutality. Men, women and children were chased like animals and gored to death with spears. This was the first train-attack made anywhere in this conflict, and this kind of thing was repeated by Muslim Leaguers in many places in the subsequent months."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gurbachan_Singh_Talib
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Gurbachan Singh Talib
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 in 1985.
128 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Gurbachan Singh Talib →
Related Quotes
"These districts were worse situated from the point of view of the harassed and beseiged Hindu and Sikh populations, e…"
"As a corollary to the above, in the period up till August, 1947 there were about a million Hindu and Sikh refugees fr…"
"Left to themselves, Hindus and Sikhs, although they reeled under the first unexpected blow in the first and second we…"
"The district of Amritsar, in which Hindus and Sikhs received, outside Western Punjab, the severest punishment at Musl…"
"But the worst carriage and destruction came in the Western districts-Multan, Rawalpindi, Campbellpur, Jhelum and Sarg…"
"These attacks were open, unchecked and of the nature of a thorough extermination-the methods being everywhere uniform…"
"The invaders marched on to their attacks fearlessly and openly, with drums beating and with a large display of firear…"
"Nine Hindus and Sikhs were murdered treacherously by Muslims in Lal Kurti Mohalla, after being decoyed into entering …"
"In other districts of the present province of West Punjab (Pakistan) and in these above-mentioned districts, immediat…"
"(e) The Muslims gave further evidence of plan and preparation in their aggression in respect of the following feature…"