The Forgotten River Beas | Rethinking Hydropolitics | Punjab Partition & IWT 1960(English Subtitles)

🌊 The Forgotten River Beas: Beyond Hydropolitics 🌊

This documentary uncovers the forgotten story of the Beas River — once a lifeline of Punjab, now erased from collective memory with English subtitles for a global audience.

The Beas River, once a lifeline of Punjab, flows through the Himalayas and joins the Sutlej before merging into the Indus system. In ancient texts, it was known as the Vipasha, celebrated in the Mahabharata and by Greek historians like Alexander’s companions. After 1947 Partition and the Indus Waters Treaty (1960), its waters were allocated to India, marking a turning point in the politics of rivers across South Asia. Today, the Beas holds memories of displacement, ecological change, and contested sovereignty.

🎥 Featuring voices of scholars and elders, the film asks:

1- Did the Beas River really end after Partition and the Indus Waters Treaty, or centuries earlier?
2- How do rivers like the Beas challenge our nation-state boundaries?
3- What can oral histories reveal about civilizations shaped by rivers beyond political borders?

✨ Key Voices:

Dr. Amjad Waheed: On misconceptions, ancient routes, and why Beas research matters for peacebuilding.

Baba Sher Muhammad (age 95): Memories of a childhood when floods submerged villages.

Haji Yasin (age 75): Witnessing ecological decline, from sweet water and fishing to pollution and poisoned wells.

Baba Pehlewaan (age 105): A century of living with a dry riverbed.

⚡ By combining historical archives, fieldwork, and lived memory, the documentary moves beyond hydropolitics - showing rivers as living archives of identity, ecology, and peacebuilding.

✨ A Film by: Hamid Nazir Daula (Anthropology, QAU)
💡 Funded by: Davis Project for Peace, Johns Hopkins SAIS

📌 For researchers, universities, and social science communities:
This film can be screened for discussions on rivers, Partition, and hydropolitics. It also aims to encourage collaboration for generating authentic data and community-centered knowledge.

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