ABSTRACT
The present chapter proposes to challenge the premises that all Muslims were for Partition and Pakistan. Very little has been written about Muslims against Partition and Pakistan. In the present chapter, speaks of one such valiant son of Amritsar, who did not leave for Pakistan despite threats to his life. Dr Saifuddin Kitchlew refused to be carried away by the Muslim League slogan of two nations even when most progressive sections among the Muslim writers, poets and Communists joined the League under the ‘illusion’ of fighting the Unionist Party of the United Punjab. A few in Amritsar now remember the man who gave the best years of his life to the city, his Kashmiri ancestors had made their home. Popular and revered leaders of pre-independence period have been lost to the post-independence generation. It is true of all those who have no political heirs. It is more so in the case of Muslim leaders of the Punjab, who chose to stay in India when their followers moved to Pakistan. Once a very popular leader of Amritsar, Dr Kitchlew deserves recognition for his constant fight against Partition and Pakistan.
