Fatima Sughra: Lahore flag protest and remembrance
Fatima Sughra is remembered for a flag protest in Lahore; accounts differ on the date and details.
Punjab and beyond
Lives & ideas
People.
Writers, makers, scientists and public lives, with their connection to Punjab stated precisely.
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Fauja Singh: Punjabi-born marathon runner
Punjab-born Fauja Singh became known for running marathons later in life; published accounts of his age require care.
Punjab and diaspora
Fazl-i-Hussain: education and Unionist politics in Punjab
Fazl-i-Hussain’s career connected colonial Punjab’s educational policy with the formation of the Unionist Party.
Punjab
Gama the wrestler: Punjabi career and international contests
The Great Gama’s wrestling career connected Punjabi training and patronage with international contests.
Punjab and beyond
Ganga Ram: engineering and philanthropy in Punjab
Engineer and philanthropist Sir Ganga Ram worked in Lahore and rural Punjab; hospitals in Lahore and Delhi bear his name.
Undivided Punjab
Ghulam Rasul Alampuri: teaching, narrative and spiritual poetry
Ghulam Rasul Alampuri combined teaching with Punjabi narrative and religious writing. Ahsanul Qasas places the Yusuf and Zulaikha story within a poetic account of spiritual love.
Alampur and the Hoshiarpur region; later literary commemoration across the border
Giani Ditt Singh: journalism, literary satire and contested reform
Ditt Singh helped shape Lahore Singh Sabha print culture. His allegorical Svapan Natak became a legal controversy, while his writings reveal changing arguments about caste, learning and religious authority.
Kalaur, Chathianwala and Lahore
Giani Zail Singh: Punjab politics and India’s presidency
Read about the Punjab politician who served as India’s president from 1982 to 1987.
Punjab and the wider world
Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner: education from Lahore to Woking
Trace Leitner’s work through teaching appointments, the University of the Punjab’s institutional history and the commissioning of Woking’s mosque.
Lahore and connected institutions in London and Woking
Gulab Kaur
Village interviews, a photograph and later memorials reveal how Gulab Kaur returned to public memory after years of fragmentary records and local searching.
Manila and Punjab
Gulzar
Born in Dina in Jhelum district, Gulzar became a poet, film lyricist and filmmaker in India.
Dina, Jhelum district and Mumbai
Guneeta Singh Bhalla: preserving Partition testimonies
Discover physicist and oral historian Guneeta Singh Bhalla’s work preserving Partition testimony.
Punjab and the wider world
Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari
Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari moved from engineering into writing. His magazine and Preet Nagar project connected literature with an ideal of shared cultural life.
Preet Nagar
Gurdas Maan
Punjabi singer and actor Gurdas Maan has discussed family musical influences, recording and film work.
Punjab and international performances
Gurdial Singh
Gurdial Singh’s writing grew from work, study and teaching in Malwa. His fiction brought regional settings and ordinary lives into Punjabi literature.
Malwa; Jaito
Gurinder Singh Mann: Sikh manuscripts and scripture
Scholar Gurinder Singh Mann studies Sikh scripture and manuscripts, including the Adi Granth and the Goindval Pothis.
Punjab and the wider world
Guru Amar Das: Goindval, langar and a widening community
The third Sikh Guru developed Goindval as a centre of worship and community organisation. His poetry and the practice of shared dining connect religious teaching with social relationships.
Punjab; Basarke, Khadur and Goindval
Guru Angad: Khadur, service and the written word
The second Sikh Guru sustained Nanak’s community at Khadur. His legacy joins shared meals, instruction, the development of Gurmukhi and concise Punjabi verse.
Punjab; Matte di Sarai, Kartarpur and Khadur
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