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Punjab in the world

Diaspora.

Local records illuminate migration, work, family life and new connections.

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Punjabi mosques and diaspora community networks

Specific mosque histories and a New Zealand support network show Punjabi Muslim participation while preserving the distinctions between wider community identities.

Bradford, England; South Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand
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Punjabi railway workers in East Africa

Recruitment, workers’ demands and the difference between return and settlement reveal the human history behind the Uganda Railway.

East Africa: Mombasa–Lake Victoria railway and recruitment in South Asia
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Punjabi soldiers and overseas settlement

Buckam Singh and Rajindar Singh Dhatt show different sequences of migration, military service, family settlement and later remembrance.

Punjab, Canada and Britain, with wartime service elsewhere
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Punjabi student migration histories

Institutional histories trace individual routes through overseas study, while a historical statute distinguishes study from employment as a purpose of entry.

Punjab; London; New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Punjabi textile workers in northern England

Yorkshire oral histories and linguistic research show varied routes into textile work, while preserving differences between Punjabi, Mirpuri and wider South Asian descriptions.

Huddersfield, Bradford and Greater Manchester, northern England

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