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Sport, players and skilled making

Connect a documented sporting career with Jalandhar’s sports-goods workshops and institutions.

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This small selection offers two entry points into sport: a player’s career and the skilled work associated with sporting equipment. Keep the evidence at its own scale. A biography, an official sporting record and a manufacturing account can illuminate connected questions without explaining every player, workshop or market.

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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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