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Urbanization in the Punjab region dates back to the third millennium C. Contributions to this volume trace its long history upto the present. Collectively, they cover all the broad phases of India history-proto-historic, ancient, medieval, colonial, and contemporary, with some of the contribution cutting across the conventional periods. Specifically, they relate to the Harappan, Mauryan, Rajput, Turkish, Mughal, Sikh, British and post-independence periods. Some ...
Beginning with geographical and cultural perspective on the early Punjab, and the migration and settlement of Jatts by the seventeenth century, essays in the first part of this volume dwell on different aspects of socio-economic and cultural life in north-western India in the precolonial times. They focus on agrarian society. Modes of irrigation, trade and urbanization, Sahibanm in Punjabi literature, Punjabi heroic poetry, and cultural life in the time of ...
These Pathbreaking essays by historians, geographers, economists and scholars in Sikh religion and Punjabi literature cover the whole span of Sikh history and nearly all its important aspects. Three essays in this volume on Such basic issues as the nature of Guru Nanank’s mission, the Sikh way of life, and the martial and political culture of the Khalsa. In four other contributions fresh light is thrownon Sikh Patronage of Painting, journalism, demographic ...