The First Anglo-Sikh War
Follow the Sutlej campaign through Aliwal and Sobraon, alongside a parliamentary dispute over military thanks and approval of government policy.
Sutlej frontier and Lahore kingdom
Through the centuries
History.
Follow changing landscapes, institutions and everyday lives. Dates and boundaries matter.
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The founding of Amritsar: a settlement, a sacred tank and a growing centre
Amritsar developed through settlement, tank construction and institutions under successive Gurus. The sources attach different founding dates to different stages and preserve alternative accounts of the land.
Amritsar and the Majha region of Punjab
The founding of the Khalsa
At Anandpur in 1699, Guru Gobind Singh established the Khalsa. Initiation, discipline and a direct relationship with the Guru reshaped the Sikh community.
Anandpur; Punjab and connected Sikh congregations
The Ghadar movement
Migrant workers, students and organisers built Ghadar across the Pacific world. Its newspapers and attempted wartime uprising connected experiences of exclusion abroad with opposition to British rule in India.
Pacific Coast of North America, Punjab and wider migrant networks
The Green Revolution in Indian Punjab
New wheat varieties, research institutions and farmer participation transformed agriculture from the 1960s. The gains in food production also made the long-term demands of intensive irrigation increasingly important.
Indian Punjab within wider Indian and international research networks
The Gurdwara Reform movement
Follow gurdwara reform through its publicity bureau, newspaper initiative and a 1925 editorial’s distinction between conditional release and admitting guilt.
Punjab
The Hindu Shahi kingdoms: power, coins and temple evidence
The Hindu Shahis connected Kabulistan, Gandhara and the approaches to Punjab. Research on Hund, coin sequences and Salt Range temples gives a fuller picture than a list of battles alone.
Gandhara, Kabulistan and the Salt Range/Punjab connections
The Hunter Committee
The Hunter Committee investigated the 1919 Punjab disturbances. Its official inquiry and contested reports require careful reading.
Punjab
The Indus Waters Treaty and Punjab
The Indus Waters Treaty was signed in 1960 by India, Pakistan and the World Bank; its river allocations and later disputes affect Punjab.
Punjab
The Kanheya misl
The Kanheya misl was an eighteenth-century Sikh political and military association, examined through Jai Singh’s portrait and later court narratives.
Punjab and adjoining hills
The Kartarpur Corridor
The 2019 Kartarpur Corridor agreement created a route to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib and a meeting place for some families separated by Partition.
Punjab
The Khaksar movement in Punjab
The Khaksar movement’s 1940 clash with police in Lahore unfolded within the wider politics of colonial Punjab and the Second World War.
Undivided Punjab
The Komagata Maru incident
Read the Komagata Maru admission dispute through a court appeal and a separate policy study, distinguishing exclusion orders from an abandoned testing plan.
Vancouver
The Kushans and Punjab: cities, coins and languages
Connect Taxila with a wider Kushan world through settlement evidence, royal coinage and the distinction between language and script.
Taxila and the northwest; connections with Bactria and northern India
The Lahore Conspiracy Case
The first Lahore Conspiracy Case began in 1915 amid Ghadar organising and emergency laws during the First World War.
Undivided Punjab
The Lahore Darbar
Read the Lahore court through an escorted audience, visible seating hierarchies and later material studies, keeping observations and identifications distinct.
Lahore kingdom and later collections
The Lower Bari Doab Colony
Examine dated Lower Bari Doab grant conditions and a later family account, distinguishing official obligations, conditional ownership and remembered settlement.
Lower Bari Doab; Chak 42/LBD
The merger of PEPSU into Punjab
PEPSU ceased to be a separate state when it merged into Punjab in 1956, with legal and administrative consequences.
Punjab, India
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