The Indian freedom struggle resulted in the creation of two new nations with the departure of the British in August 1947. The Muslim majority provinces of Punjab and Bengal were divided, with West Punjab along with the Sindh, North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Baluchistan, and East Bengal forming West and East Pakistan respectively, and India in the middle and in the North East. This partition of 1947 resulted in a massive and violent transfer of population as Sikhs and Hindus moved into India and Muslims fled to Pakistan. As a result, a million people were left dead, at least seventy five thousand women were raped, mutilated and abandoned, about twelve million people were displaced and rendered homeless, countless homes, properties, families were devastated as new national borders were drawn , ruthlessly wiping away the old existing cultural , ethnic and geographical entities. This issue of the Indian Partition of 1947 has been selected for this study. Hence forth it will be addressed simply as the partition. The present study focuses only on this partition of the Western frontier and not on the partition of Pakistan and Bengal.