Dalit movements in Punjab: Ad Dharm and the struggle for equality
Dalit movements in Punjab have challenged caste hierarchy through religious, social and political organising, including Ad Dharm.
Indian Punjab
Through the centuries
History.
Follow changing landscapes, institutions and everyday lives. Dates and boundaries matter.
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Disappearances and accountability in Punjab
Read about investigations into disappearances, cremations and accountability in Punjab.
Indian Punjab
Early iron use in Punjab: objects, working and dates
Separate evidence for using iron from evidence for producing it, and compare Punjab’s sites with securely described discoveries elsewhere.
Punjab, with comparative evidence from the central Ganga plain and eastern Vindhyas
Early medieval Punjab after the Guptas: coins and sacred landscapes
A local coin study and research on temples and Buddhist sculpture reveal different forms of change after Gupta power. Each body of evidence has its own chronology and geographical limits.
Punjab, the Salt Range and connected northwestern/Himalayan sites
Early Punjabi literary traditions
Early Punjabi literary traditions bring Farid, Namdev and Gurdas into conversations about language, script, authorship and surviving manuscripts.
Punjab’s literary networks, with Maharashtra and north Indian connections
Evacuee property and rehabilitation in India
After Partition, Indian Punjab faced the rehabilitation of displaced families and the administration of evacuee homes, shops and land.
Punjab
Evacuee property and rehabilitation in Pakistan
After Partition, Pakistan’s Punjab faced refugee property claims and the need to provide housing and livelihoods to displaced families.
Punjab
Gandhara and Punjab: a historical relationship
Locate Gandhara around the Indus and Taxila, then distinguish a regional name, a literary language and a dated Buddhist dedication.
Gandhara, Taxila and the northwestern subcontinent
Gandharan art and workshop networks: materials, objects and attribution
Compare qualified workshop attributions, traces of paint and material analyses to understand connections without inventing a workshop map.
Taxila and the wider Gandharan world, including the Peshawar region and Swat
Ghaznavid Lahore: a political centre and a city in poetry
Lahore became a major base of later Ghaznavid power and the dynasty’s final capital. A poet’s career also reveals its courtly connections and the risks of depending on patronage.
Lahore and connections with Ghazna, Jalandhar and the wider northwest
Ghurid expansion in Punjab: Multan, Lahore and successor powers
Ghurid campaigns linked Multan and Lahore with a wider military realm. After Muhammad of Ghor’s death, Lahore also became a centre in the competition among his former commanders.
Multan, Uch, Lahore and their connections with Ghazna and Delhi
Groundwater depletion in Punjab
Irrigation, pumping and recharge shape groundwater pressures in Indian Punjab and Pakistan’s Indus Basin, with important local differences.
Punjab
Gupta influence and the Punjab frontier
Samudragupta’s inscription distinguishes conquest, tribute and diplomacy. Reading those claims separately gives a more careful picture of the northwestern frontier.
Northwestern South Asia; Punjab in relation to the Ganges plain
Guru Arjan death and competing historical sources
Compare an early report of Guru Arjan’s death with historians’ debates about translation and later narratives, retaining each source’s reporting limits.
Lahore and the Mughal court; later Sikh historiography
Guru Hargobind and temporal authority
Guru Hargobind’s temporal authority is examined through historical scholarship and institutional remembrance, each with its own evidential limits.
Amritsar and Sikh courtly networks in Punjab
Guru Nanak in historical context
Guru Nanak’s teaching emerged within Punjab’s political and religious life. His compositions, the community at Kartarpur and later remembrance illuminate different aspects of that setting.
Talwandi, Sultanpur and Kartarpur, Punjab
Guru Tegh Bahadur execution and source traditions
Compare source traditions about Guru Tegh Bahadur’s execution through historians’ footnotes, textual chronology and debates over historical questions.
Delhi, Punjab and wider textual networks
Harappan agriculture and food: crops, cooking and labour
Seeds, plant micro-remains and fats in pottery reveal different parts of Indus food systems, with important limits on each.
Harappa in Punjab and comparative settlements in Haryana and Rajasthan
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