Chamba Kalan and Nearby Villages: Land Sacrifice & Broken Promises explores one of the most overlooked chapters in Punjab’s rural history—where farmers paid the price of national development.

In the 1950s, the construction of the Harike Barrage in Tarn Taran submerged thousands of acres of fertile land in Punjab’s Majha region to divert water toward Rajasthan. Farmers from Chamba Kalan and surrounding villages were promised canal-irrigated land, fair compensation, rehabilitation, and long-term security. These assurances, however, remained verbal and undocumented, leaving affected families without the land or support they were promised.

Decades later, the impact of land acquisition in Punjab continues to haunt these villages. Families face economic loss, displacement, recurring floods, and the erosion of livelihood ...