The Rigveda as a source for Punjab’s regional history
Read hymns, oral transmission and surviving manuscripts as different kinds of evidence for the northwestern subcontinent.
Greater Punjab and connected northwestern regions
Through the centuries
History.
Follow changing landscapes, institutions and everyday lives. Dates and boundaries matter.
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The Rowlatt Act and Punjab
Read the Rowlatt Act’s emergency trial provisions beside a working paper’s account of Lahore’s protests, preserving the limits of each source.
Punjab
The Second Anglo-Sikh War
Read the war through received letters, dated campaign despatches and requests for official papers, separating military surrender from later political outcomes.
Multan, Gujrat and the northern Punjab
The sieges of Anandpur Sahib
Read the Anandpur sieges through fortifications, mobilisation letters and an evacuation narrative, preserving the sources’ different dates and purposes.
Anandpur Sahib and the Shivalik foothills
The Soan Valley: stone tools, sediments and dating
Compare early stone-tool claims around Riwat and the Pabbi Hills with later luminescence dates from Potwar sediments.
Soan Valley and Pabbi Hills, northern Pakistan
The succession crisis after Ranjit Singh
Follow succession after Ranjit Singh through investiture, interim orders and the relationship between ruler, minister and army, with interpretations attributed.
Lahore
The Sukerchakia misl
Trace Sukerchakia power through the Gujranwala stronghold, Maha Singh’s reported alliances and the regency that followed his death, using early accounts.
Gujranwala, Jammu and Gujrat
The Treaty of Amritsar 1809
Read the 1809 agreement through an amended draft, a diplomatic minute and conflicting printed dates, distinguishing proposals from the reasoning behind them.
Lahore diplomacy
The Treaty of Lahore 1846
Read the Lahore settlement through its separately dated March 1846 instruments, distinguishing territorial cessions, military limits and a temporary garrison.
Lahore settlement
The Unionist Party in Punjab
Punjab’s cross-community Unionist Party governed after the 1937 election before the Muslim League’s advance weakened its coalition.
Undivided Punjab
The Vadda Ghallughara
Read the Vadda Ghallughara of 1762 through the protection of accompanying families, attributed loss estimates and the history of its later memorial.
Kup-Rahira and the retreat towards Barnala
Timur’s invasion and Punjab: the campaign and its aftermath
Timur’s 1398 campaign disrupted an already contested political region. His departure was followed by struggles in Punjab and the eventual rise of Khizr Khan from Multan to power in Delhi.
Punjab, Multan, Lahore, Dipalpur and the route to Delhi
Trade and urbanisation in medieval Multan: routes, merchants and the city
Medieval Multan’s trade connected merchants, credit and migration to routes beyond the city, as shown by dated accounts and later research.
Multan, the Delhi Sultanate and connections with Central Asia and Persia
Vedic pastoralism and settlement: reading a mixed economy
Cattle, cultivation and mobile life need to be studied together, with literary descriptions kept distinct from excavated settlements.
Greater Punjab and the wider Vedic textual regions
Wartime food and labour in Punjab
Wartime grain procurement, prices and the Grow More Food drive reshaped demands on agricultural work in Punjab during the Second World War.
Punjab across India and Pakistan
Women and authority in the Lahore court
Compare a court visit in 1838 with Chand Kaur’s regency claim in 1840–41, reading mediated encounters and political coalitions as different kinds of evidence.
Lahore
Women and gendered violence during Partition
Women faced sexual violence, abduction and coercion during Partition. Their experiences also expose the power of family, community and state over decisions about belonging and return.
Punjab and the India–Pakistan borderlands
Women, education and social change in Punjab
Trace changing opportunities for women’s education in Punjab and the barriers they faced.
Punjab across India and Pakistan
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