The story of Beero and his motley group friends is set against the impending partition of India. Beero's passage through adolescence is told through a series of vignettes involving characters who are each more eccentric than the next-wrestler, quack, prostitute; Hindu, Muslim, Sikh. But when partition becomes a reality, in a time of terror and carnage, the insane turn out be the only ones sane.

In August 1946, exactly a year before Independence, Calcutta erupted in street-gang fighting. A cycle of riots — targeting Hindus, then Muslims, then Sikhs — spiraled out of control. As the summer of 1947 approached, all three groups were heavily armed and on edge, and the British rushed to leave. Hell let loose. Trains carried Muslims west and Hindus east to their slaughter. Some of the most brutal and widespread ethnic cleansing in modern history erupted on both sides of the new border, searing a divide between India and Pakistan that remains a root cause of many evils. From jihadi terrorism to nuclear proliferation, the searing tale told in Midnight’s Furies explains all too many of the headlines we read today.

Tehzeeb-e-Niswan by Syed Ahmad Khan, this women rights magazine was started by Sayyid Mumtaz Ali along with his wife Muhammadi Begum in 1898. The purpose of this magazine was to highlight and uplift women’s work for their betterment. It was regarded as the pioneering work on women rights in Islam.

This was the first story of Hasan Manto, Tamasha. It was based on Jallianwala Bagh massacre at Amritsar. Manto was known to write about the atrocious truths that no one dared to talk about. This short story got published in a small literary magazine from Lahore.

This slim volume of short stories created a firestorm of public outrage for its bold attack on the hypocrisy of conservative Islam and British colonialism. The young writers who penned this collection were eager to revolutionize Urdu literature. Instead, they invited the wrath of the establishment: the book was burned in protest and then banned by the British authorities. Nevertheless, Angaaray spawned a new generation of Urdu writers and led to the formation of the Progressive Writers’ Association, whose members included, among others, stalwarts like Chughtai, Manto, Premchand and Faiz.

Thirty-five Years in the Punjab is an English book, published in 1908, written by George Robert Elsmie, a civil officer in the Panjab for thirty-five years (1858-1893). The book consists mainly of extracts from letters and diaries by the author of Punjab as he journeyed through the region during these thirty-five years.

This book is based on the customary and civil law of Punjab. The book accommodate the changes brought about by the 13th India Act in 1900 that dealt with the succession, marriage, tenures of land, adoption and the alienation of agricultural land in Punjab.

The aim here is to create memorable portraits of the ideal Sikh homo whose spirit never falters or wilts in the midst of life\’s miseries, confusions and terrors. The story principally involves the strange and troubled experiences of Jamuna, a young Jain widow, who is decoyed into false positions, appellations and conversions in rapid succession before she is ushered into the Sikh faith. Enroute, she encounters avarice, lust and sin in pious garbs. Each new experience brings home to her men\’s depravity. Utterly appalled, she seeks refuge in death to avoid harrowing humiliations.

Bijai Singh joins the jatha or band of Sardar Karora Singh that is a real name from Sikh history, but wounded in a battle, he again falls into captivity and is taken to Lahore. Here Murad Begam loses her heart to him and proposes marriage, exempting him from the condition of renouncing his faith and embracing Islam. He, however, spurns the offer. The Begam`s intrigue to get rid of Sushil Kaur by having her thrown into the rivers also fails. The Sikh spy Bijia Singh who happens to be around, picks her up as well as her son and brings them back to the camp of their leader, Karora Singh. While the mother and son regain health in the jatha, an attack is planned to get Bijai Singh released.

Base on a popular folk song and set in the historical period of Mir Manu that is notorious for large scale massacre of the Sikhs, Sundri is a symbolic representative of that milieu. The story depicts incidents and events which inculcate universal brotherhood and love for humanity. A Sikh girl treats an injured Moghul sepoy but on learning that she is a Sikh woman he attacks with his dagger. Surasti, the earlier name of Sundri, was forcibly taken away by the Moghul official but when she is baptised and renamed Sundri, she earns respects of the members of the Sikh Jatha who treat her as their own sister.

A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab is a richly annotated autobiography of Ruchi Ram Sahni (1863–1948)—social reformer, scientist, science educator, and, later, active participant in political affairs. A riveting account of life in nineteenth-century colonial Punjab, it covers Sahni’s growing up in a Hindu business family in Dera Ismail Khan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, and captures the social, political and intellectual ferment of the times.

This book depicts the true words of Guru Gobind Singh who was the lord of the Plume for all his disciples and followers. The book efforts its way to make the readers understand that to recite the Lord's name amorously by the tongue is paying attention of the mind towards the Lord. The Lord is that the living non secular power. He has no form. It is by his name that we know him. The Guru has afore mentioned that Name is that the non-secular energy, Supreme knowledge, Divine love, and Divine music.