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First historical entryAchaemenid rule in the northwest: inscriptions and uncertain borders Administration of the Sikh Empire Agrarian protests of 1907 Agricultural change in Pakistani Punjab: water, crops and livelihoods Ahmad Shah Durrani campaigns in Punjab Akbar and Punjab: government, a Lahore court and the arts of the book Alexander’s campaign in Punjab Ashokan inscriptions in the northwest: script, routes and messages Aurangzeb policies and Punjab Banda Singh Bahadur campaigns Bhakti traditions and shared devotional spaces Buddhist monasteries and trade routes around Taxila Canal colonies in colonial Punjab Census categories and identity in Punjab Chandigarh as a planned capital Changing river courses: reading Punjab’s archaeological landscape Children and displacement in 1947 Colonial military recruitment in Punjab Dalit movements in Punjab: Ad Dharm and the struggle for equality Disappearances and accountability in Punjab Early iron use in Punjab: objects, working and dates Early medieval Punjab after the Guptas: coins and sacred landscapes Early Punjabi literary traditions Evacuee property and rehabilitation in India Evacuee property and rehabilitation in Pakistan Gandhara and Punjab: a historical relationship Gandharan art and workshop networks: materials, objects and attribution Ghaznavid Lahore: a political centre and a city in poetry Ghurid expansion in Punjab: Multan, Lahore and successor powers Groundwater depletion in Punjab Gupta influence and the Punjab frontier Guru Arjan death and competing historical sources Guru Hargobind and temporal authority Guru Nanak in historical context Guru Tegh Bahadur execution and source traditions Harappan agriculture and food: crops, cooking and labour Harappan civilisation in Punjab Harappan craft and exchange: the evidence of making Harappan seals and the undeciphered script Harappan urban planning: streets, water and different cities Heritage conservation across the Punjab border Huna incursions and regional change Indo-Greek kingdoms and Punjab: reading the coins Indo-Scythian rule: exchange, names and revised coin sequences Jahangir and Lahore: a travelling court and a monumental afterlife Jallianwala Bagh massacre Kafila migration and walking routes Kashmir conquest of 1819 and Punjab rule Labour migration into Punjab Lahore as a colonial capital Land reform debates in Punjab: ownership, tenancy and inequality Land settlement under British rule Late Harappan settlements in Punjab: local change after urbanism Martial law in Punjab in 1919 Mauryan rule in Punjab: empire, administration and proclamations Mehrgarh and Punjab: connections without a simple origin story Military reform under Ranjit Singh Missing persons and family separation after Partition Mongol incursions into Punjab: armies, frontiers and shifting loyalties Multan conquest of 1818 Nadir Shah invasion and Punjab Operation Blue Star in June 1984 Oral history and Partition memory Overseas migration from Punjab: routes, work and belonging Painted Grey Ware in the wider Punjab region Partition in Punjabi cinema Partition in Punjabi literature PEPSU formation and administration Persian administration in Punjab: records, training and professional networks Porus in ancient accounts and later images Punjab after Aurangzeb Punjab before written records: reading the material evidence Punjab in the rebellion of 1857 Punjab militancy and civilian experiences Punjab politics in the 1946 elections Punjab reorganisation in 1966 Punjab under the Delhi Sultanate: governors, frontiers and cultivation Punjabi language policy in Indian Punjab: statehood, administration and schools Punjabi soldiers in the First World War Punjabi soldiers in the Second World War Railways and the transformation of Punjab Ranjit Singh’s capture of Lahore Rebuilding Amritsar after 1947: displacement, camps and homes Rebuilding Lahore after 1947: displacement, housing and resettlement Recovery and political change in Punjab in the 1990s Refugee camps in eastern Punjab Refugee camps in western Punjab Refugee trains and evacuation operations Religious patronage under Ranjit Singh Rescue and solidarity during Partition River pollution and industrial growth Sapta Sindhu: seven rivers and historical geography Shah Jahan’s architecture in Punjab: royal complexes and provincial patronage Sikh misls and confederacies Stubble burning and air pollution history Sufi networks in medieval Punjab Taxila as a centre of learning The 1965 war and Punjab border communities The 1971 war and Punjab experiences The 1988 floods in Punjab The 2010 floods in Pakistani Punjab The 2022 floods and southern Punjab The Ahluwalia misl The Akali movement The Anandpur Sahib Resolution The annexation of Punjab in 1849 The anti-Sikh violence of November 1984 The Arab conquest of Sindh and its limits in Punjab The Babbar Akali movement The Battle of Chamkaur The Battle of Jamrud The Battle of Muktsar The Battle of Nowshera The Battle of the Hydaspes: crossing, combat and sources The Bhangi misl The Chenab Colony The Chhota Ghallughara The collapse of the Unionist coalition The compilation of the Adi Granth: collection, organisation and interpretation The Dal Khalsa The development of Sikh institutions: congregations, regional networks and service The Dharam Yudh Morcha: Punjab’s 1982–1984 agitation The division of Punjab archives The division of Punjab university institutions The Emergency in Punjab, 1975–1977 The farmers’ protests of 2020 to 2021 The First Anglo-Sikh War The founding of Amritsar: a settlement, a sacred tank and a growing centre The founding of the Khalsa The Ghadar movement The Green Revolution in Indian Punjab The Gurdwara Reform movement The Hindu Shahi kingdoms: power, coins and temple evidence The Hunter Committee The Indus Waters Treaty and Punjab The Kanheya misl The Kartarpur Corridor The Khaksar movement in Punjab The Komagata Maru incident The Kushans and Punjab: cities, coins and languages The Lahore Conspiracy Case The Lahore Darbar The Lower Bari Doab Colony The merger of PEPSU into Punjab The Mughal province of Lahore: jurisdiction, local authority and a moving court The Nankana Sahib massacre of 1921 The Nehru–Liaquat Pact and Punjab The Pagri Sambhal Jatta movement The partition of irrigation systems The Partition of Punjab in 1947 The Phulkian states The Punjab Board of Administration The Punjab Boundary Commission The Punjab Land Alienation Act 1900 The Punjabi language movement in Pakistan The Punjabi Suba movement The Quit India movement and Punjab The Radcliffe Award The Rajiv–Longowal Accord: Punjab agreement of 1985 The Rakhi system The Ramgarhia misl The Rawalpindi violence of March 1947 The Rigveda as a source for Punjab’s regional history The Rowlatt Act and Punjab The Second Anglo-Sikh War The sieges of Anandpur Sahib The Soan Valley: stone tools, sediments and dating The succession crisis after Ranjit Singh The Sukerchakia misl The Treaty of Amritsar 1809 The Treaty of Lahore 1846 The Unionist Party in Punjab The Vadda Ghallughara Timur’s invasion and Punjab: the campaign and its aftermath Trade and urbanisation in medieval Multan: routes, merchants and the city Vedic pastoralism and settlement: reading a mixed economy Wartime food and labour in Punjab Women and authority in the Lahore court Women and gendered violence during Partition Women, education and social change in Punjab Second historical entryAchaemenid rule in the northwest: inscriptions and uncertain borders Administration of the Sikh Empire Agrarian protests of 1907 Agricultural change in Pakistani Punjab: water, crops and livelihoods Ahmad Shah Durrani campaigns in Punjab Akbar and Punjab: government, a Lahore court and the arts of the book Alexander’s campaign in Punjab Ashokan inscriptions in the northwest: script, routes and messages Aurangzeb policies and Punjab Banda Singh Bahadur campaigns Bhakti traditions and shared devotional spaces Buddhist monasteries and trade routes around Taxila Canal colonies in colonial Punjab Census categories and identity in Punjab Chandigarh as a planned capital Changing river courses: reading Punjab’s archaeological landscape Children and displacement in 1947 Colonial military recruitment in Punjab Dalit movements in Punjab: Ad Dharm and the struggle for equality Disappearances and accountability in Punjab Early iron use in Punjab: objects, working and dates Early medieval Punjab after the Guptas: coins and sacred landscapes Early Punjabi literary traditions Evacuee property and rehabilitation in India Evacuee property and rehabilitation in Pakistan Gandhara and Punjab: a historical relationship Gandharan art and workshop networks: materials, objects and attribution Ghaznavid Lahore: a political centre and a city in poetry Ghurid expansion in Punjab: Multan, Lahore and successor powers Groundwater depletion in Punjab Gupta influence and the Punjab frontier Guru Arjan death and competing historical sources Guru Hargobind and temporal authority Guru Nanak in historical context Guru Tegh Bahadur execution and source traditions Harappan agriculture and food: crops, cooking and labour Harappan civilisation in Punjab Harappan craft and exchange: the evidence of making Harappan seals and the undeciphered script Harappan urban planning: streets, water and different cities Heritage conservation across the Punjab border Huna incursions and regional change Indo-Greek kingdoms and Punjab: reading the coins Indo-Scythian rule: exchange, names and revised coin sequences Jahangir and Lahore: a travelling court and a monumental afterlife Jallianwala Bagh massacre Kafila migration and walking routes Kashmir conquest of 1819 and Punjab rule Labour migration into Punjab Lahore as a colonial capital Land reform debates in Punjab: ownership, tenancy and inequality Land settlement under British rule Late Harappan settlements in Punjab: local change after urbanism Martial law in Punjab in 1919 Mauryan rule in Punjab: empire, administration and proclamations Mehrgarh and Punjab: connections without a simple origin story Military reform under Ranjit Singh Missing persons and family separation after Partition Mongol incursions into Punjab: armies, frontiers and shifting loyalties Multan conquest of 1818 Nadir Shah invasion and Punjab Operation Blue Star in June 1984 Oral history and Partition memory Overseas migration from Punjab: routes, work and belonging Painted Grey Ware in the wider Punjab region Partition in Punjabi cinema Partition in Punjabi literature PEPSU formation and administration Persian administration in Punjab: records, training and professional networks Porus in ancient accounts and later images Punjab after Aurangzeb Punjab before written records: reading the material evidence Punjab in the rebellion of 1857 Punjab militancy and civilian experiences Punjab politics in the 1946 elections Punjab reorganisation in 1966 Punjab under the Delhi Sultanate: governors, frontiers and cultivation Punjabi language policy in Indian Punjab: statehood, administration and schools Punjabi soldiers in the First World War Punjabi soldiers in the Second World War Railways and the transformation of Punjab Ranjit Singh’s capture of Lahore Rebuilding Amritsar after 1947: displacement, camps and homes Rebuilding Lahore after 1947: displacement, housing and resettlement Recovery and political change in Punjab in the 1990s Refugee camps in eastern Punjab Refugee camps in western Punjab Refugee trains and evacuation operations Religious patronage under Ranjit Singh Rescue and solidarity during Partition River pollution and industrial growth Sapta Sindhu: seven rivers and historical geography Shah Jahan’s architecture in Punjab: royal complexes and provincial patronage Sikh misls and confederacies Stubble burning and air pollution history Sufi networks in medieval Punjab Taxila as a centre of learning The 1965 war and Punjab border communities The 1971 war and Punjab experiences The 1988 floods in Punjab The 2010 floods in Pakistani Punjab The 2022 floods and southern Punjab The Ahluwalia misl The Akali movement The Anandpur Sahib Resolution The annexation of Punjab in 1849 The anti-Sikh violence of November 1984 The Arab conquest of Sindh and its limits in Punjab The Babbar Akali movement The Battle of Chamkaur The Battle of Jamrud The Battle of Muktsar The Battle of Nowshera The Battle of the Hydaspes: crossing, combat and sources The Bhangi misl The Chenab Colony The Chhota Ghallughara The collapse of the Unionist coalition The compilation of the Adi Granth: collection, organisation and interpretation The Dal Khalsa The development of Sikh institutions: congregations, regional networks and service The Dharam Yudh Morcha: Punjab’s 1982–1984 agitation The division of Punjab archives The division of Punjab university institutions The Emergency in Punjab, 1975–1977 The farmers’ protests of 2020 to 2021 The First Anglo-Sikh War The founding of Amritsar: a settlement, a sacred tank and a growing centre The founding of the Khalsa The Ghadar movement The Green Revolution in Indian Punjab The Gurdwara Reform movement The Hindu Shahi kingdoms: power, coins and temple evidence The Hunter Committee The Indus Waters Treaty and Punjab The Kanheya misl The Kartarpur Corridor The Khaksar movement in Punjab The Komagata Maru incident The Kushans and Punjab: cities, coins and languages The Lahore Conspiracy Case The Lahore Darbar The Lower Bari Doab Colony The merger of PEPSU into Punjab The Mughal province of Lahore: jurisdiction, local authority and a moving court The Nankana Sahib massacre of 1921 The Nehru–Liaquat Pact and Punjab The Pagri Sambhal Jatta movement The partition of irrigation systems The Partition of Punjab in 1947 The Phulkian states The Punjab Board of Administration The Punjab Boundary Commission The Punjab Land Alienation Act 1900 The Punjabi language movement in Pakistan The Punjabi Suba movement The Quit India movement and Punjab The Radcliffe Award The Rajiv–Longowal Accord: Punjab agreement of 1985 The Rakhi system The Ramgarhia misl The Rawalpindi violence of March 1947 The Rigveda as a source for Punjab’s regional history The Rowlatt Act and Punjab The Second Anglo-Sikh War The sieges of Anandpur Sahib The Soan Valley: stone tools, sediments and dating The succession crisis after Ranjit Singh The Sukerchakia misl The Treaty of Amritsar 1809 The Treaty of Lahore 1846 The Unionist Party in Punjab The Vadda Ghallughara Timur’s invasion and Punjab: the campaign and its aftermath Trade and urbanisation in medieval Multan: routes, merchants and the city Vedic pastoralism and settlement: reading a mixed economy Wartime food and labour in Punjab Women and authority in the Lahore court Women and gendered violence during Partition Women, education and social change in Punjab
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