Locate the institution

Punjabi Khoj Garh is a research centre associated with Iqbal Qaiser in the Lalliyani area of Kasur district. Historian Pippa Virdee’s 2021 account describes the trust and voluntary work that sustain it, connecting research, publication and cultural advocacy. She dates its founding initiative to March 2001. These dated accounts establish a scholarly setting and a way to identify the institution. They are not a current inventory of individual manuscripts or a guarantee that a particular book can be supplied.[1]

Use a dated library account

Altaf Hussain Asad’s 2017 visit describes books and magazines alongside spaces used by visiting researchers. Qaiser discussed conferences on Baba Farid and Guru Nanak, publication work and plans to scan books for free online use. The distinction between an observed library and a proposed digital service matters. Cite the report as evidence of the centre’s activities at that time; it does not show that the proposed scanning programme was completed or that every holding is now searchable remotely.[2]

Follow the poster back to its source

A later visit offers a more specific research lead. Irfan Aslam’s October 2021 report describes the Punjabi Film Pictorial Museum within Khoj Garh, with posters, actors’ photographs and film-reference books. It identifies the All India Film Directory of 1940 and Filmdom, Who is Who of 1946 among the books. Qaiser also explained that displayed posters came partly through Mandeep Singh Sidhu and material associated with Sidhu’s illustrated history of Punjabi cinema.[3]

For a film project, keep those different chains of transmission visible. A poster displayed in Kasur may have reached the collection through a historian or a published book. Ask which version is available, who supplied it and whether an original, reproduction or book illustration is being consulted. This is a research question prompted by the reported collection history, not an authentication of its individual posters. Neither report supplies item-level reproduction permission.[3]

Sources & notes

Source records include access dates and, where known, limits on what was examined. Checks used AI assistance; independent human or specialist review has not been completed.

  1. Pippa Virdee; BAGICHA. Punjabi Khoj Garh (Punjabi Research and Archive) ↗Inspected historian’s institutional account · Source date: 2021-08-26 · Locator: Complete institutional account: trust, founding, researcher welcome and location paragraphs. Accessed 2026-11-01.Actual full 2021 account read. The substantially repeated founding description in an earlier PRG notice is reserved in the same conservative work pool; that earlier page was not used as independent evidence. No manuscripts or current catalogue were inspected.Return to Locate the institution, paragraph 1 ↑
  2. Altaf Hussain Asad; The News on Sunday. House of readers ↗Inspected first-hand visit and interview · Source date: 2017-07-23 · Locator: Actual visit report: library rooms, researcher use, conferences, publications and digitisation proposal. Accessed 2026-11-01.Full actual report read. Observed setting and Qaiser’s attributed statements are distinguished from completed digital access. Promotional counts and unverified future publications are excluded.Return to Use a dated library account, paragraph 1 ↑
  3. Irfan Aslam; Dawn. Khoj Garh a corpus of Punjabi film posters, books ↗Inspected first-hand institutional report · Source date: 2021-10-03 · Locator: Actual full report: poster sourcing through Mandeep Singh Sidhu and named 1940/1946 reference books. Accessed 2026-11-01.Complete report read. Film-origin priority claims and claims to complete coverage are excluded. No individual poster or underlying film-reference volume was inspected.Return to Follow the poster back to its source, paragraph 1 ↑Return to Follow the poster back to its source, paragraph 2 ↑
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