Allah Rakhi Ismail obituary
My mother, Allah Rakhi Ismail, who has died aged 81, was a survivor of the partition of India whose experiences imbued her with an iron will and a strong self-belief.
Born in Kasel, a farming village outside Amritsar, Punjab, Allah Rakhi was the only daughter of Karam Din, a tenant farmer, and Rahmat Bibi. The couple also had four sons, Ismail, Hamid, Majid and Karim.