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The tribes to which British Pakistani Punjabis belong include Jats, Gujjars, Awans, Arains, Rajputs and several others like Pathans of Punjab and Kashmiris of Punjab. [ 18 ] The population of Indian Punjabis in the UK has been estimated at 466,563 in 2011, based on an earlier estimate that they constitute 45% of the British Indian community.
[1]: 54 In 1858, the Punjab, along with the rest of British India, came under the rule of the British Crown. Following the Indian mutiny, Punjab became a lieutenant-governor's province under the Bengal Presidency. [1]: 54 After the Government of India Act of 1919, Punjab was turned into a governor's province. [1]: 55 It had a land area of ...
Jassi Sidhu – bhangra singer and the former lead singer of British Indian bhangra band B21; Jay Sean – R&B artist; Juggy D – bhangra, Punjabi music, R&B; Malkit Singh – Punjabi bhangra]] singer; Manj Musik – music composer, singer; Manni Sandhu – music director; Ms Scandalous – bhangra/rap artist; Naughty Boy – rapper, musician ...
Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, [g] is an Indo-Aryan language natively spoken by the Punjabi people. Punjabi is the most popular first language in Pakistan, with 80.5 million native speakers as per the 2017 census, and the 11th most popular in India, with 31.1 million native speakers, as per the 2011 census.
Numerous Punjabi Hindus are Nanakpanthi, who revere Guru Nanak alongside their Hindu deities but without following the other gurus, and nor identify as Sikhs in terms of religious affiliation; at the time of the 1891 census of British Punjab, it has been estimated that, out of the 2 million Sikhs around 1 million were Hindu Nanakpanthis, but in ...
[2] [3] Patiala State was the largest and most important princely state in the Punjab Province. [4] The state's ruler, the Maharaja of Patiala, was entitled to a 17-gun salute and held precedence over all other princes in the Punjab Province during the British Raj. [2] The state was ruled by Jats of Sidhu clan of Sikh religion. [5]
From 1937 onwards, British India was divided into 17 administrations: the three Presidencies of Madras, Bombay and Bengal, and the 14 provinces of the United Provinces, Punjab, Bihar, the Central Provinces and Berar, Assam, the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), Orissa, Sind, British Baluchistan, Delhi, Ajmer-Merwara, Coorg, the Andaman and ...
During the British Raj, after the Bengalis and Hindustani speaking people, Punjabis were the third biggest nation in South Asia and for the British, Punjab was a frontier province of British India. Therefore to rule, the prime factor for the British rulers was to control the Punjab by dominating or eliminating the Punjabi nation. [50]