Rare books and contemporary records on the bloody Partition of India

Women paraded naked by Muslims


In March 1947, Rawalpindi saw the Massacre of Sikhs at the hands of Muslims. Women were gang-raped while many who heard about the same either committed suicide by jumping into wells or agreed to be martyred by their family members to save their honor. Late KC Aryan was 28 years old then and had made this painting about the horrors of the Partition. (Courtesy: Museum of Folk and Tribal Art, Gurgaon, Haryana)