Abstract
Lahore had been a victim of brutal communal riots since the end of Khizr Ministries on
3
rd of Mach. All these episodes of violence remained of mutual acts of violence in which
all communities took participate as per their strength. This wave of violence had cause
much damage to the cosmopolitan of Lahore. Still there was hope that somehow stoppage
of all the bloodshed would enable the city to restart its previous peace full atmosphere
once again. However, unfortunately that hopeful assumption had rather caused the
opposite impact on the city of Lahore. That hope of normalcy returning had pushed the
communalist rioters to turn all their efforts into the some of the vicious acts with their
ultimate and detrimental outcome in the city ad for the city of Lahore on the future
cosmopolitan identity. Present article is an effort to connect the purpose and impact of
the Great fire at financial and trade hub, Shah Almi Bazar which resulted into an
immediate push for the non-Muslim to leave the city.
Adnan Tariq. (2021) Violence, Lahore and Partition of India: Refocusing on the Great Fire of Shah Almi Bazarand the real exodus, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume-58, Issue-2.
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