"It is Muslim Raj now. Pakistan has been created. We are the rulers and Hindus ryot (peasants). The Sikhs will have to fly the Pakistan flag… and pay them land revenues (kharaj) and other dues."
— Partition of India

January 1, 1970

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Jahan Khan, an MLA, prominent Muslim League worker, and M. P. of the Provincial Legislative Assembly. Quoted in Khosla G. D. (1989). Stern reckoning : a survey of the events leading up to and following the partition of india. Oxford University Press. 158-9