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- ↑ Punjab (India) (2000). Punjab State Gazetteer. Revenue and Rehabilitation Department, Punjab.
- 1 2 Nanda, Reena (2018-02-10). From Quetta to Delhi: A Partition Story. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-93-86643-44-5.
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