Prakash Kaur
Punjabi singer Prakash Kaur trained in music in Lahore and recorded with her sister Surinder Kaur.
Lahore and Delhi
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Writers, makers, scientists and public lives, with their connection to Punjab stated precisely.
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Pran
Follow actor Pran’s journey from Punjabi cinema in Lahore to Hindi films and his Dadasaheb Phalke award.
Delhi, Lahore and Mumbai
Pratap Singh Kairon: Punjab chief minister and development
Punjab chief minister Pratap Singh Kairon’s career included post-Partition development and an official inquiry into allegations against him.
Punjab
Prem Gorkhi
Prem Gorkhi’s Punjabi short fiction attended to marginalised lives. Memories of reading, newspaper work and mentoring reveal a public literary practice.
Jalandhar; Chandigarh
Prem Lata Sharma
Prem Lata Sharma linked musical theory with aesthetics and sustained textual scholarship through editing. Her work joined research, teaching and publication.
Punjab and Banaras
Pritam Singh: Singapore politician with Punjabi ancestry
Singapore politician Pritam Singh has Punjabi ancestry and has served in Parliament with the Workers’ Party.
Punjab and beyond
Prithviraj Kapoor
Actor Prithviraj Kapoor connected Indian cinema with the travelling theatre company Prithvi Theatres.
Peshawar and Bombay
Professor Puran Singh: forest chemistry, poetry and Thundering Dawn
Puran Singh worked on forest oils and tannins while writing poetry and spiritual prose. His journal travelled from Tokyo to Lahore, joining scientific training to a wide literary and religious world.
Salhad and Lahore; Tokyo; Dehradun
Purnima Dhavan: historian of Punjab and Sikh history
Historian Purnima Dhavan examines early modern Punjab and the making of Sikh martial traditions in When Sparrows Became Hawks.
Punjab and the wider world
Qadir Yar: Punjabi storytelling, devotion and Puran Bhagat
Qadir Yar’s work ranges from lovers’ narratives to religious poetry and heroic verse. Puran Bhagat became a defining work, with later critics examining its characters, ethics and transmission.
Machike or Machhike, historically in the Gujranwala region
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
Qawwali and playback singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan trained with his uncle Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and performed internationally.
Punjab, Pakistan
Raj Kapoor
Read about Raj Kapoor’s early life, RK Films and the social themes of Awara and Shree 420.
Peshawar and Bombay
Rani Datar Kaur: a Nakai queen in the Lahore dynasty
Also known as Raj Kaur or Mai Nakain, Datar Kaur was Kharak Singh’s mother. Accounts place her alongside the heir on campaign and at her grandson’s elaborate 1837 wedding.
Nakai chiefdom and the Lahore court; Multan and Attari
Reshma
Singer Reshma’s career crossed radio, film and borders; a remembrance traces her early recording to Radio Pakistan.
Rajasthan, Karachi and Lahore
Riffat Hassan
Riffat Hassan’s Lahore education and scholarly career informed public debate. Her feminist theology distinguishes normative teachings from historical practice.
Lahore; United States
Ritu Menon: feminist publishing and women’s Partition history
Publisher and author Ritu Menon co-wrote Borders & Boundaries with Kamla Bhasin, documenting women’s experiences of Partition.
Punjab and the wider world
Roop Dhillon: British Punjabi writer and science fiction
British Punjabi writer Roop Dhillon learned to write Punjabi as an adult and explored new representations in fiction.
Punjabi literary communities
Ruchi Ram Sahni
Scientist and educator Ruchi Ram Sahni taught in Lahore, researched radioactivity and gave public lectures in Punjabi.
Lahore and undivided Punjab
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