Finding Punjab sources in the Endangered Archives Programme
Use one documented collection, Nur-i-Afshan, to move from a preservation project to a properly scoped source citation.
Historical Punjab; originals at Forman Christian College, Lahore
Collections · A guide to the archive
Archives, editions and object records
Find practical entry points into catalogues, manuscripts, testimony collections and museum objects with their access limits intact.
How to approach this subject
Choose the guide that fits your research question, then follow its exact record or edition. A catalogue description can identify an item without providing the whole text or granting image reuse. These guides make that distinction visible and help you record enough detail for someone else to find the same evidence.
An intentional selection
Begin with these entries
Panjab Digital Library: a researcher’s starting guide
Plan an item-level search, keep catalogue evidence separate from a scan, and record access limits without treating them as missing history.
Punjab-related literary and historical collections
The 1947 Partition Archive: a researcher’s guide
Distinguish public excerpts from research access, read the archive’s current conditions, and preserve an interview’s context and permissions.
South Asian Partition experiences and a globally collected archive
Punjab district gazetteers: how to read an official description critically
Identify a district, date, volume and part before using a gazetteer, then test its administrative categories rather than carrying them into the present.
Historical Punjab districts and changing administrative units
Baburnama and Punjab: manuscripts, images and translations
Find a particular Baburnama witness, distinguish its language and date, and trace the Lahore connection of one illustrated folio.
Mughal texts, Punjab connections and dispersed collections
Researching phulkari through museum records
Two accessioned textiles show how to separate an object’s physical description, its acquisition history and a curator’s interpretation.
Historical Punjab; objects held in Australia and the United States