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In the Indian state of Punjab, Punjabi Hindus make up approximately 38.5% of the state's population; numbering 10.7 million and are a majority in the Doaba region. Punjabi Hindus form a majority in five districts of Punjab, namely, Pathankot, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Fazilka and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar districts. [38]
Amaresh Dutta, chief editor of the Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, mentioned that Gulati was influenced by Sufi and Sikh thought. [8] [2] [3] [4] The Hindu poet Damodar, as far as we know, was the first person to compose an epic-length Punjabi text of Hir Ranjha.
His interest in writing being history and mythology, his first book of short story, Ajat Sundari, was published in 1990. Along with history the themes of his writing were adivasis and dalits. He published several travelogues, short story collections, novels in Punjabi and one book on history and Indian mythology.
[171] [172] The history of the Sikh faith is closely associated with the history of Punjab and the socio-political situation in the north-west of the Indian subcontinent in the 17th century. The hymns composed by Guru Nanak were later collected in the Guru Granth Sahib , the central religious scripture of the Sikhs.
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.
Hinduism is the oldest recorded religion practiced by the Punjabi people. [18] The Rig Veda, the oldest and most sacred Hindu text, is believed to have been composed in the Punjab region of modern-day Pakistan (and India) on the banks of the Indus River around 1500 BCE. [19]
Moreover, as the latter Gurus became martial, this community was a natural home for the warrior-class of the Punjabi Hindus. [1] [page needed] [8] [page needed] Some notable Mohyals include the brothers Bhai Mati Das and Bhai Sati Das, both died alongside the ninth Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur, for protecting Hinduism from Aurangeb extremist policy.
Ganda Singh (15 November 1900 – 27 November 1987) [1] was an Indian Punjabi and Sikh historian and Padma Bhushan awardee. [2] In addition to scores of research papers, booklets and pamphlets, he published over two dozen full-length volumes of historical value.