Nathowal is twelve kilometres from Raikot in Ludhiana district. In 1947 about twelve Muslim families left for Pakistan. Fifty stayed, with the approval of the Sikhs, who did not want the Muslim families to go.
The village has around 7,000 people now, roughly 500 of them Muslim.
The Jamia Mosque was repaired in 2015 at a cost of ₹25 lakh. About 65 per cent of that was contributed by Sikhs and Hindus.
The decision in 1947 was taken by the village, not by an authority. The families who stayed were the ones the village asked to stay, and the mosque continued in use through the whole period in which almost every other mosque in the Malwa was abandoned, converted or pulled down.
The repair in 2015 was funded by the village's Sikh and Hindu households alongside its Muslim ones. That is reported in the press each time it is rediscovered, and it has never been recorded as a village history by anybody in the village.
There are other villages in the Malwa and the Doaba where Muslim families stayed. Nobody has made a list of them. It would be a short list and it would be the most useful single document about 1947 in east Punjab.