Since the dawn of Indian history, Punjab has always been in turmoil as it was the northern land gateway to the Indo-Gangetic plains and had borne the brunt of the attacks of the invading hordes from the Asian heartlands for many centuries. The twentieth century has witnessed the cataclysmic shrinkage in size of the once sprawling Punjab that extended from river Indus in the west to the outskirts of Delhi before 1947. The present state of Punjab is surrounded by ...
