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Partition Museum

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The building was once a British headquarters and a jail, which gives the Partition Museum in Amritsar's town hall a weight the exhibits never have to manufacture.

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Punjab
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The building was once a British headquarters and a jail, which gives the Partition Museum in Amritsar's town hall a weight the exhibits never have to manufacture. It opened in August 2017 to gather the stories, papers and objects of the riots that followed the division of British India, and it reaches wider than that: the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, the Komagata Maru, the Congress and the Muslim League, and what women lived through afterwards. Go before the Golden Temple rather than after. It is not an easy hour, and you will want somewhere quiet to sit at the end of it.

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Partition testimonyAmritsar town hallOpened in 2017

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Amritsar (Golden Temple)

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Fatehgarh Sahib

Fatehgarh Sahib

Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib rises in white marble over the site of Sikhism's most heart-rending sacrifice — where in 1704 the two youngest sons of Guru Gobind Singh, aged just seven and nine, were bricked alive by the Sirhind governor for refusing to abandon their faith. The underground Bhora Sahib preserves the wall's site; nearby stand Mata Gujri's tower prison and the shrine of Todar Mal, who bought the cremation ground with gold coins laid edge to edge.

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