On 31 August 1947 about a hundred Sikh men held off thousands at Chak No. 119, Bhuler, in Sheikhupura district. More than three hundred Sikhs died. Women jumped into the wells until the wells filled. Others asked male relatives to kill them.
Survivors were resettled at Batala and villages around it, in Gurdaspur district.
Bhuler is in Pakistan. The memorials are a marble plaque at the Ghanta Ghar entrance of the Golden Temple at Amritsar, and one at Batala.
The place you can visit is sixty kilometres from the place it happened. That displacement, memory anchored where the survivors ended up rather than where the event was, is common to a great deal of Partition remembrance and is rarely stated as a fact about the memorials themselves.
Dr Virsa Singh Bajwa documented it in Shaheedi Saka Bhuler. The historian Kulwinder Singh Bajwa, a native of Bhuler now living at Batala, is a living source.
The saka belongs to the Akali morcha years, when confrontations between jathas and the authorities were happening in the eastern districts and in the canal colonies at the same time.
The colonists from the Majha who had taken land in the Sheikhupura and Lyallpur chaks carried the movement out with them, and several of its episodes happened in the colonies rather than in the home districts.
The site is in Pakistan and the descendants are in Indian Punjab. That separation is why the episode is remembered in families and is missing from the standard accounts.