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Partition of the Indian subcontinent in August 1947 to create two sovereign states of India and Pakistan
was marked by the greatest migration in the twentieth century. Around twenty million people were
displaced by Partition, with Hindus and Sikhs migrating to India and Muslims migrating to Pakistan. This
article hopes to understand the importance of the Partition violence through previously unused Police First
Information Reports (FIRs), that lodged at thana (local police stations) at the time. Police FIRs provide
some novel evidence in which the private desire for economic motives presented a major contributory
factor in the attacks on unwanted minorities. Crime often reports identity the local constituencies and
categories for violence, as well as typologies and occupational basis of perpetrators. Alongside the
struggle over territory and the cry for revenge, the article not only highlights different forms of violence but
also draws attention to some of the local perpetrators of violence at the neighbourhood level. A focus is on
the complicity of the members of law enforcers in coordinating the violence, rather than protecting the
communities under attack.
Ilyas Chattha. (2021) Thana First Information Reports (FIRs) and the Forms of Partition Violence at District level, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume-58, Issue-1.
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