"Gangs of killers set whole villages aflame, hacking to death men and children and the aged while carrying off young women to be raped. Some British soldiers and journalists who had witnessed the Nazi death camps claimed Partition’s brutalities were worse: pregnant women had their breasts cut off and babies hacked out of their bellies; infants were found literally roasted on spits"

Nisid Hajari, a writer, in his book “Midnight’s Furies,” describing the horrific violence during Partition

"To recall those days of communal orgy my only objective is to point out that a communalist and killer has no religion. It was the humanity that was the victim of communal fanatics… we should better learn appropriate lessons from history and not allow the communal fanatics of one or the other community to vitiate the atmosphere and disturb communal peace and harmony."

Ved Bhasin, a writer who witnessed the Jammu violence in 1947, in his book 'Ved Ji and His Times'

"Acceptance of the resolution will be an abject surrender to the British and the Muslim League. The admission of the Working Committee was the result of a sense of despair. The Partition would not benefit either community – the Hindus in Pakistan and the Muslims in India would both live in fear."

Purushottam Das Tandon, a prominent leader, opposed the partition and highlighted the potential consequences

"The Hindus and Sikhs of Jammu and those who had gone there from outside killed Muslims. The Maharaja of Kashmir is responsible for what is happening there… A large number of Muslims have been killed there and Muslim women have been dishonoured."

Mahatma Gandhi, addressing the atrocities in Jammu during a prayer meeting in New Delhi on December 25, 1947