HISTORY AND MEMORY OF THE REHABILITATION OF REFUGEES AFTER PARTITION OF 1947: A CASE STUDY OF DISTRICT RAWALPINDI

Abstract

This study explores the Rehabilitation of Refugees and displaced people from east Punjab to west Punjab and policies took by the Government to rehabilitate the refugees in the district Rawalpindi specifically after the partition and migration of 1947. After the creation of Pakistan, rehabilitating of thousands of refugees was the main task for the newly created government. Many immigrants arrived in Rawalpindi from Eastern Punjab, and an immigration camp was established within Islamia High School Rawalpindi. The new government had a lot of issues due to the large number of immigrants. Organizations like Pakistan-Punjab Refugees Council, Ministry of Rehabilitation, Ministry of Refugees, Central Record Office, Advisory Committee, and Committee for Vigilance, and Deputy Commissioner on District level were established to deal with rehabilitation issues, allotting of territories as the rapid start of refugees rehabilitation or resettlement was necessary to address this problem and prevent financial stress. The major purpose to write this paper is to preserve the rehabilitating process that occurred during migration of 1947 in Punjab. The present researcher have accessed to primary sources as well as secondary sources. The present researcher used Descriptive analytical methodology.

[1]Rehabilitation here means resettlement of the refugees after partition of 1947 in east and west Punjab.