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As counterweight, British legislation reserved parliamentary seats for religious minorities, but the Punjab and Bengal had such a complicated mixture of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs that it was not possible to avoid fights over how separate constituencies were to be formed.
Here was a boy growing up in Punjab during the fall of the Raj and the Partition, a boy who had been blinded by meningitis at the age of 3, roller-skating through the back streets of Lahore as Sikhs slaughtered Hindus and Hindus slaughtered Muslims and civilization was collapsing and then, decades later, having made his way from India to an Arkansas school for the blind to Balliol College, Oxford, to The New Yorker , re-creating the whole thing in Proustian detail and better-than-Proustian prose ...
Sweeping through the Punjab and Gujarat across to the western end of the Ganga valley, Mahmud of Ghazni (997–1030) used these raids more to finance his empire in Persia and Turkistan than to set up a permanent foothold in India.
An investigation carried out by the Milan newspaper Corriere della Sera revealed that in Jalandhar, Punjab, little girls aged 10 to 12 were engaged in what is virtually slave labor, sewing leather footballs printed with the legend "Guaranteed produced without child labor" for export to Italy, France, and Britain.
The moral strength of his non-violent philosophy was immediately tested in the Punjab, where the hartal erupted into riots.