Pakistan was given 12 villages to take 1 village.
With the independence of the country the British left the country but left a lifelong scar by dividing it into two parts. The never-to-be-forgotten line of partition of India was decided by London lawyer Sir Cyril Radcliffe. The partition was finalized on 18 July 1947. Pakistan became independent on 14 August 1947 and India became independent a day later on 15 August. And thus Radcliffe dismantles the Indian heritage by cutting the ‘golden bird’ into pieces.
After partition, the same country became two borders and people on both sides of the borders became strangers. On one side of the border is the same old India that has been saying ‘Atithi Devo Bhava’ with open arms for centuries and on the other side is the new Pakistan. The partition did not stop there, 14 years later in 1947 there was another partition between India and Pakistan. But this partition was done not by Radcliffe but by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of the country. The reason for this was a village, named after a Muslim Sufi saint and located in the part of Pakistan. This village was very dear to India. Because the memories of the immortal brave martyrs of the country were present here.
12 villages given to Pakistan for ‘Hussainiwala’
The village Pandit Nehru took back from Pakistan after partition is named ‘Hussainiwala’. India gave 12 villages to Pakistan to take this one village. Let us first know the geographical location of this village and then its history. After partition Hussainiwala village was part of Punjab province of Pakistan. The village is currently part of Ferozepur district in the Indian state of Punjab. The village shares a border with neighboring country Pakistan. Just opposite Hussainiwala village on the bank of river Sutlej is Ganda Sinhwala village in Kasur district of Pakistan. The village once served as a major border crossing between Pakistan and India.
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Hussainiwala has the Samadhi of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev.
Hussainiwala village stands witness to the martyrdom of freedom heroes and the brutality of the British. Here are the mausoleums of freedom heroes Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev who sacrificed for the country. In fact, the immortal martyrs of these three countries blew the trumpet of freedom of the country. With the passion to die for their country, these three brave young men entered the war against the British. In 1928, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru shot dead British junior police officer John Saunders in Lahore. British soldiers arrested all three in this crime. At the time, the Viceroy of India, Lord Irvine, constituted a special tribunal to try the case and sentenced the trio to death.
The last rites of the brave martyrs were performed in Hussainiwala.
On 23 March 1931, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were hanged in the Lahore Central Jail. There was great affection among the people for these three, so the British began to fear rebellion. To prevent this from happening to anyone, the British soldiers secretly brought the bodies of the three to Hussainiwala village and started cremating them. When the people of the village came to know about this, they started gathering at the crematorium. Seeing the increasing number of villagers, all the soldiers left the dead bodies in half burnt condition and fled from there. Later the villagers cremated the dead bodies and built a mausoleum for the three brave sons.
At the time of partition, it reached Pakistan’s share
In the partition of 1947, this village went to the part of Pakistan. Nobody thought about it. A few years after independence, the families and people of the martyrs demanded the Indian government to take it back. He also wrote letters to the then Prime Minister Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru. In the year 1961, Pandit Nehru demanded the return of Hussainiwala village from the Pakistan government and offered 12 villages adjacent to the border near Fazilka in exchange. Pakistan agreed to this deal and Pakistan gave Hussainiwala village to India in exchange for 12 villages.
Memories are linked, martyrdom seems to be fair
Batukeshwar Dutt, the revolutionary who threw a bomb in the Legislative Assembly in 1929, expressed his desire to be cremated in this village. When he died in 1965, he was cremated in this village. Bhagat Singh’s mother Vidyavati Devi died in 1975. His last rites were also performed in this village. In 1973, Giani Zail Singh, the then CM of Punjab, built a grand monument in the memory of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru at Hussainiwala. Shaheed Mela is organized here every year on 23 March.
