A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab: The colonial experience

This book covers the period up to 1914

A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab

Ruchi Ram Sahni, 1863-1948

Neera Burra (Editor)

Oxford University Press

354 pages; Rs 1,195

Ruchi Ram Sahni belonged to the first generation of “English-knowing Punjabis”, a generation that was widely seen as the “hope” of the country.
 

He wrote these memoirs in the 1940s, when he was in the winter of his life. His primary motivation was to explain to his descendants their familial origins. But, what he has to say is of interest to anyone wishing to get a feel of grassroots life at a time when India was experiencing a remarkable social and intellectual transformation.

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