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The History of Punjab refers to the past history of Punjab region which is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in the northwest of South Asia, comprising eastern Punjab province in Pakistan and western Punjab state in India. [1]
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The Punjab emerged as an important agricultural region, especially following the Green Revolution during the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, and has been described as the "breadbasket of both India and Pakistan." [3] Punjab's history is a tapestry of conflict, marked by the rise of indigenous dynasties and empires.
The larger state of Punjab had been formed under the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 by merging East Punjab and PEPSU. The 1966 separation was the result of the Punjabi Suba movement , which agitated for the creation of a Punjabi -speaking state (the modern state of Punjab); in the process a majority Hindi -speaking state was created ...
Punjab (/ p ʌ n ˈ dʒ ɑː b / ⓘ; [8] Punjabi: [pənˈdʒɑːb] ⓘ) is a state in northwestern India.Forming part of the larger Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the north and northeast, Haryana to the south and southeast, and Rajasthan to the southwest; by the Indian union territories of Jammu and Kashmir to the ...
The Sikh population, after the partition of Punjab, had become a majority population in a contiguous, strategic land area for the first time in its history, [25] [26]: 369 with a new socio-political position, [9] [21] This enabled the Akali Dal to focus on expressing unencumbered Sikh political needs, free from the politics of the former Muslim ...
Muhammad Latif was born at Lahore in 1851, two years after the annexation of Punjab into the British Raj following the second Anglo-Sikh war.He belonged to an educated family – his father Syed Muhammad Azeem (1815–1885) founded The Lahore Chronicle in 1850, a pioneering English-language newspaper of British Punjab.
The Punjab government embarked on a major project in 2009 to restore the Royal Trail (Shahi Guzar Gah) from Akbari Gate to the Lahore Fort with the help of the World Bank under the Sustainable Development of the Walled City of Lahore (SDWCL) project. The project aims at the Walled City development, at exploring and highlighting economic ...