Word: punjab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the Prosecutor could turn to India: "Everywhere the armed and the many devoured the helpless and the few. In Calcutta, in Lahore, in Amritsar, in Old Delhi and New Delhi and throughout the magnificent plain of the dismembered Punjab, in homes and shops and factories and farms and villages and in the religious sanctuaries of all faiths, amid the clotting of the terrified in depots and on guarded trains and on lonely station platforms and in the vast shelterless encampments of refugees and their hypnotized columns across the land, the devastation raged alike among Hindus and Moslems and Sikhs...
...Eyewitness. On this point, the witness Niranjan Singh, a Sikh, testified. Singh, a few weeks ago a prosperous merchant in the Montgomery district of the Punjab, now moves about New Delhi on crutches. He said...
...Orphans. A witness who had seen the Punjab border between Pakistan and India testified...
...women and children and bullocks and groaning carts were plodding eastward and westward beneath the autumn skies and nights of the cloven Punjab; past unharvested fields, past empty villages and eviscerated villages and villages which resemble rained-out brush fires. Huge, forlorn concentrations of Sikhs and Hindus labored forward to leave the West Punjab forever. On one day last week, columns No. 8 and 9 moved across the famous Balloki headworks between Amritsar and Lahore and passed into the Indian Dominion; not far behind, foot columns No. 10, 11 and 12 lumbered steadfastly eastward. Carefully feeling its way around Amritsar...
...suite at the Savoy Hotel, swarthy Prince Haroun-al-Raschid Abbasi, 23, descendant of Bagdad's Caliphs, and heir to the fabulously wealthy throne of Bahawalpur in the Punjab, idly leafed through the News of the World. His eye lit on Katherine's picture. Could he, he asked by the next mail, come and congratulate such a lucky girl in person? The two arranged a rendezvous outside crowded Walham Green Underground station. Then the Prince went to Fulham to meet the family. They called him Harry...