Partition of India, especially of Punjab following India's independence in 1947 was a very traumatic experience. This volume of SGPC records the some details of transfer of population from West to East and East to West Punjab and the amount of destruction and death of property and population following the partition of Punjab in 1947. It gives a district wise transfer of Punjab/Sikh farmers from Pakistan Punjab to Indian Punjab. More than these details, it records the loss of Sikh life, rapes, arson and suffering of the Sikhs at the hands of Muslim Army personnel. These records reveal heart-rending tales of mass scale murder and destruction of the Sikhs and their property both in West and East Punjab. These records are based on the several government notification and personal information given by the affected people. It reveals the frenzy of communal madness at its height[edit]