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Explore settlements and heritage sites across both modern Punjabs and connected regions.

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Historical Punjab and the two modern administrative Punjabs have different boundaries. Every place is described within its stated scope.

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Jagraon

Jagraon is a Ludhiana district town with links to Lala Lajpat Rai and a changing administrative and urban history.

Punjab, India
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Jalandhar: making sports goods and building colleges

Jalandhar’s workshops and educational institutions reveal overlapping histories of skilled migration, reform and urban growth. Named neighbourhoods and college chronologies make those connections concrete.

Indian Punjab; Doaba
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Jallianwala Bagh

Understand the 1919 massacre at Jallianwala Bagh and the site’s later commemoration.

Amritsar, Punjab, India
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Jampur: flood memory and a mapped town

Jampur’s 2010 flood response and later risk assessment reveal how a town’s hospitals, schools and mapped landscape became part of relief planning.

Rajanpur, Pakistan
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Jaulian

Jaulian is a Buddhist archaeological site near Taxila with a monastery, central stupa and smaller votive stupas.

Taxila region, Pakistan
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Jhelum River

Follow the Jhelum River from Kashmir through Wular Lake and Mangla towards its confluence with the Chenab.

Kashmir and Punjab
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Kabirwala: industry, health and planning

Kabirwala’s milk-processing industry, medical services and development plans show distinct aspects of the town’s changing landscape.

Punjab, Pakistan
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Kalanaur in Gurdaspur

Discover Kalanaur and the platform associated with the accession of Mughal emperor Akbar.

Gurdaspur district, Punjab, India

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