Chanting “Punjabi Suba Murdabad!” (Death to the [Sikh] state of Punjab!) and “Indira Gandhi Murdabad!” (Death to Indira Gandhi!), the mobs attacked government property and set fire to Sikh ...

In June 1984, Punjab stood communally polarised by two mutually antagonistic figures – those of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Sikh preacher Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, their antagonism ...