How did Amritsar become a scene of bloodshed in 1947?
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Similar to the 'Battle of Briton' when the Nazis decided to go against the British in 1940 and 1941, or Stalingrad was the turning point for the Russians in 1944, it was in Amritsar which the tide turned, as the Sikhs held out and emerged victorious. The Sikhs successfully stood against the Muslim and went on slaughtering for four months or more. With the approach of August 15, the Muslims fearing the unavoidable counter-attack on the part of the Hindus and Sikhs, rendered unavoidable in this case by the summed-up sufferings and helplessness, hate and anger of months of destruction in Amritsar, Lahore, Multan, Rawalpindi, the Frontier Province and other places, lied Amritsar in panic. It was a beautiful sight to see how within the span of a day and a night, almost no Muslim was to be seen in and around Amritsar when they got freedom on August 15, expecting those who had established themselves in the notorious area of Sharifpura, expecting what they knew to be well-deserved punishment for brutal and inhuman crimes against their former countrymen.