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This article is about the stormy era in South Asia. The turmoil surfaced in the Punjab when Khizer Hayat Tiwana stepped down from the premiership in March 1947. The political agitation started by the Muslim League, turned into communal strife in different parts of the Punjab. The main centres of violence were Lahore and Amritsar. The Muslims were overwhelmingly in favor of Pakistan as against two wishes of Hindus and Sikhs who wanted India to be kept instead. In these circumstances All India Congress impetuously passed two resolutions to divide Punjab and Bengal on Communal basis without realizing the fact that the same formula would be applied over the whole country.
Ghulam Rasool Meher wanted Pakistan to be constituted over Muslims majority provinces without any alteration of their area. He was disheartened by communal strife and was planning to move to Jallendhar for the rest of his life. The 3rd June plan which accepted Pakistan at the cost of division of Bengal and Punjab appeared to the Muslims of India as a bolt from blue. Meher was shocked and never reconciled with it. The ultimate price was uprooting of millions Muslims and non Muslims from their ancestral homes, loss of life and property. Meher lost his ancestral home, library and fertile pieces of land in Phulpore in East Punjab.Meher never expected a fair deal from Radcliff and anticipated loss of some important Muslim majority areas in the Punjab. He was bitterly against the other two factors closes in 3rd June partition plan. Unfortunately this clause decisively went against Pakistan.Read More →

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Dr. Sajida Sultan Alvi is Professor Emeritus of Indo-Islamic History at the Institute of Islamic Studies , Macgill University ,Montreal ,Canada .She has many research oriented publications and articles at her credit. She started the research project: ” Development of Chisti Sufi order in the punjab during 18th and 19th century (from 1760-1850) in 2004.She asked me to assist her in this project in September 2004.I assisted her for nine years and four months (September 2004 to December 2013).This project covers Khwajah Nur Muhammad Maharwi (d 1205/1790) and his four major ‘khulafa’.Kh Nur Muhammad Narowala(d 1203/1789).Hafiz Muhammad Jamal Multani (d 1126/1811),Qazi Muhammad Aqil (d 1229/1814),and Khwaja Muhammad Sulayman Taunsawi (d 1266/1850).Khwaja Muhammad Maharwi was prominent disciple (khalifa) of Khwajah Fakhr ud din Dehlawi (d 1199/1785).This article discusses the free kitchen ‘langar’ that is favourite institution in the different orders of Sufism in South Asia. I have discussed this ‘langar’ institution in the article covering Kh Maharwi and his four major khulafa.In fact this will be chapter of our book in urdu on the project mentioned above .The notes of this article were prepared under the guidance of Dr Sajida S Alvi during the period of assistance .Now I have written this article under the light of these notes.Read More →