This resulted in an explosion of violence against the Sikh communities in the anti-Sikh riots which resulted in the massacre of thousands of Sikhs throughout India ; Khushwant Singh described the actions as being a Sikh pogrom in which he " felt like a refugee in my country.

* February 2 – Khushwant Singh, Indian writer

Literature describing the human cost of independence and partition comprises Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan ( 1956 ), several short stories such as Toba Tek Singh ( 1955 ) by Saadat Hassan Manto, Urdu poems such as Subh-e-Azadi ( Freedom ’ s Dawn, 1947 ) by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Bhisham Sahni's Tamas ( 1974 ), Manohar Malgonkar's A Bend in the Ganges ( 1965 ), and Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice-Candy Man ( 1988 ), among others.

He told journalist Khushwant Singh that he was advised to try drinking his own urine when in his 40s to cure piles ( haemorrhoids ), and he got immediate results.

Though journalist Khushwant Singh believed himself to be on Bhindranwale's hit list, he allowed that the Sikh preacher-become-activist genuinely made no distinction between higher and lower castes, and that he had a restored thousands of drunken or doped Sikh men, inured to porno films, to their families, and that < nowiki ></ nowiki > Operation Blue Star < nowiki ></ nowiki > had given the movement for Khalistan its first martyr in Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.

*" Oh, That Other Hindu Riot of Passage – an article by Khushwant Singh

Also near by is " Sujan Singh Park ", New Delhi's first apartment complex, built in 1945, and designed by Walter Sykes George and named after the grandfather of this enclave ’ s most famous resident, writer Khushwant Singh.

Its environs are home to a significant number of bureaucrats from the central government, and famous people like the satiric author Khushwant Singh.

More recent major writers in English who are either Indian or of Indian origin and derive much inspiration from Indian themes are R. K. Narayan, Vikram Seth, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Raja Rao, Amitav Ghosh, Rohinton Mistry, Vikram Chandra, Mukul Kesavan, Raj Kamal Jha, Vikas Swarup, Khushwant Singh, Shashi Tharoor, Nayantara Sehgal, Anita Desai, Kiran Desai, Ashok Banker, Shashi Deshpande, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kamala Markandaya, Gita Mehta, Manil Suri, Ruskin Bond, Preeti Shenoy and Bharati Mukherjee.

Veteran journalist Khushwant Singh stated that Tohra " could have become the uncrowned king of the Sikhs ", but " his vision remained limited to launching morchas and going to jail ".

Khushwant Singh, who visited the Mission's headquarters in Delhi in 1973 described it as being like a fortress with-high walls, an iron grilled gate enclosing a courtyard and a complex of buildings capable of housing 100 and with the capacity to feed 50, 000 visitors on special occasions.

Khushwant Singh ; born 2 February 1915 ) is a prominent Indian novelist and journalist.

In 2007, the Indian government awarded Khushwant Singh the Padma Vibhushan.

Sayyid Faher Bin Taimur of Oman, HM Birendra Shah, King of Nepal, Sardar Khushwant Singh, HH Madhavrao Scindia, Sir Peter Ustinov, Mr Jaswant Singh and Mr LK Advani.

Khushwant Singh once likened Maneka to +‘ Durga ’.

* Khushwant Singh, prominent Indian novelist and journalist

* Sahibs who Loved India by Khushwant Singh, Penguin Books, 2010, ISBN 978-0-14-341580-0.

It was edited at times by many important people in India, including Devdas Gandhi and Khushwant Singh.

* Khushwant Singh: An editorial writer whose column " With Malice towards One and All " appears in the Saturday edition.

The Company of Women is a novel by Indian author Khushwant Singh.

Khushwant Singh, one of India's most well-known and widely read authors, commenced writing The Company of Women when he was eighty-three and finished at age eighty-five.

Indian journalist Khushwant Singh says he " disagree with almost everything has to say about misconceptions about Islam ".

Later, he was publicly condemned by the Sikhs and social activists like Khushwant Singh, Guru Radha Kishan, Habib Tanveer and Amrita Pritam for his alleged role in Sikh riots in Delhi and lead to his expulsion from the party after few years.

The majority of Sikhs believe, eating meat is left up to the individual's conscience in Sikhism, as it will not affect spirituality. Khushwant Singh also notes that most Sikhs are meat-eaters and decry vegetarians as daal khorey ( lentil-eaters ).

* Singh, Upinder, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th century, Dorling Kindersley, 2008, ISBN 978-81-317-1120-0.

* Singh, Sangat ( 1999 ) The Sikhs in History, New Delhi, Uncommon Books

* Dilgeer, Harjinder Singh ( 2011 ) Sikh History in 10 volumes ( vol.

* Teja Singh Ganda Singh ; A Short History of the Sikhs.

From A Short History of the Sikhs, Ganda Singh & Teja Singh:

* Sikh History in 10 Volumes, by Dr Harjinder Singh Dilgeer.

* Curtius in McCrindle, Op cit, p 192, J. W. McCrindle ; History of Punjab, Vol I, 1997, p 229, Punajbi University, Patiala, ( Editors ): Fauja Singh, L. M. Joshi ; Kambojas Through the Ages, 2005, p 134, Kirpal Singh.

* History of kirat-historian authored by Iman Singh Chemjong, Nepal.

Dr. Fauja Singh, M. A., Ph. D, Professor and Director, Department of History and Punjab Historical Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala, India praised Singh's marriage of yoga and religion, saying " he has helped to retrieve from its distorted image of the medieval period and has restored it to its original and meaningful usage and purpose, that is to say, the desire to attain union with God through its agency.

Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a foreword to just two books, one of which was Bamzai's History of Kashmir ( the other was Sanskriti ke char adhyaya by Rashtrakavi Ramdhari Singh ' Dinkar ').

* Dilgeer, Dr Harjinder Singh, Sikh History, 10 volumes ( English ), Sikh University Press, Belgium, 2010-11.

* Singh, Jai Prakash ( 1976 ) History and Coinage of Skandagupta Kramāditya, Varanasi: Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture & Archaeology, Banaras Hindu University.

" Mohan Bikram Singh and the History of Nepalese Maoism ".

* Dr. Vir Singh ( 2004 ), My Life History: 1986-1979, Raja Mahendra Pratap, ISBN 81-88629-24-3

The Maratha Historian Srimant Balwantrao Bhaiya Saheb Sindhia, appreciated the bravery of Rana Bhim Singh and has written about Bhim Singh Rana in his book “ History of Gwalior fort ” as under:

Dr. Bhup Singh, historian, has written " Hansi ka Etias " History of Hansi, a book published by Rotary International.

* History of Panjab, Dr L. M. Joshi, Dr Fauja Singh.

" History of Panjab " by Dr L. M. Joshi and Dr Fauja Singh ( Ed ) also identifies the Assakenoi and Aspasioi of the classical writings with the clans of the Kambojas.

* History of Panjab, Vol I, Dr Fauja Singh, Dr L. M. Joshi.