(Ebook) A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab. Ruchi Ram Sahni, 1863-1948 by Neera Burra, (Editor) ISBN 9780199474004, 0199474001

(Ebook) A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab. Ruchi Ram Sahni, 1863-1948 by Neera Burra, (Editor) ISBN 9780199474004, 0199474001

A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab is the autobiography of Ruchi Ram Sahni (1863–1948), a social reformer, science educator, and, in later life, an active participant in political affairs. It provides a rich account of the social, political, and intellectual ferment in the Punjab in the mid to late nineteenth century, seen through the eyes of a thoughtful observer who grew up in a business family in Dera Ismail Khan (now in Waziristan, Pakistan), and went on to Lahore, where he settled as a Professor of Chemistry at the Government College, Lahore. Sahni’s energetic life is evident from the range of activities he describes, from social reform in the Brahmo Samaj through science education in the Punjab, to participation in the background of the Congress Enquiry Committee into the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.