[1] Prior to the partition of India in 1947, a third of Lahore district's population was Hindu and Sikh.
The city's Hindu and Sikh population left en masse during the partition and shifted to East Punjab and Delhi in India.
Muslim refugees and locals competed for ownership over abandoned Hindu and Sikh property.
[22][23] The first Persian text on Sufism was written, by Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh Shaykh Abul Hasan 'Ali Hujwiri R.A. in Lahore which became a major source for early Sufi thought and practice.
[27][28] The city is also of significant importance to the Sikhs of Punjab region who call it Lahore-Sharif.