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What was the population of the muslim refugees of east punjab in total?

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"the territory awarded to "East Punjab" was home to some 12.5 million Muslims"

page 185, Memory, Nationalism, and Narrative in Contemporary South Asia, By J. Edward Mallot

Many Muslim majority districts and tehsils which shared border with what was to become Pakistani Punjab or West Punjab were given to India by the British, including Gurdaspur district, Ajnala Tehsil etc.
 
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