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One of the most prominent early Punjabi Christians in the UK was Duleep Singh, who first landed in the country in 1854, he was the Sikh Prince kidnapped by British at young age and converted without his knowing. He left Christianity at a later age and converted back to his Sikh beliefs.
Maharaja Duleep Singh – Born in a Sikh family, but converted to Angilican Christianity as a ward of the British state. Rejoined as a Sikh in 1864. Rejoined as a Sikh in 1864. Max Arthur Macauliffe (1841–1913) – senior administrator of the British Raj who was posted in the Punjab; prolific scholar and author.
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Following personalities have been identified by scholars to be Punjabi or of Punjabi origin, but there is yet to be a scholarly consensus: Ayn-Al Mulk Multani (d. 1325), general of Delhi Sultanate [7] Muzaffar Shah I (1342–1411), founder of the Muzaffarid dynasty of Gujarat [8] Khizr Khan (1351–1421), founder of the Sayyid dynasty. [9]
Christianity is the second-largest religion in Punjab Province of Pakistan comprising 1.9% of its population. Most Christians (81%) of Pakistan live in Punjab province. There are 2,458,924 Christians in Punjab province as of 2023, [1] up from 1,699,843 in 1998.
Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, [g] is an Indo-Aryan language natively spoken by the Punjabi people. Punjabi is the most popular first language in Pakistan, with 80.5 million native speakers as per the 2017 census, and the 11th most popular in India, with 31.1 million native speakers, as per the 2011 census.
The mission published a translation of the New Testament in Punjabi in 1868. [5] In 1873, the mission press started publishing a weekly periodical in Persian and Urdu. [1] This was the only Christian newspaper printed in the Urdu language at the time. [5] In 1885, 25,000 copies of tracts and books were published by the press.
Punjabi Christians, on the other hand, were always treated with contempt due to their caste and their dark skin. [8] Within the three major Christian branches in South Asia, there were historically and are currently different levels of caste acceptance.