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Economically it transformed the Punjab into the richest farming area of India, socially it sustained the power of large landowners and politically it encouraged cross-communal co-operation amongst land owning groups. [202] The Punjab also became the major centre of recruitment into the Indian Army. By patronising influential local allies and ...
The term "Punjab" came into currency during the reign of Akbar in the late sixteenth century. [ 43 ] [ 33 ] [ 34 ] Though the name Punjab is of Persian origin, its two parts ( پنج , panj , 'five' and آب , āb , 'water') are cognates of the Sanskrit words, पञ्च , pañca , 'five' and अप् , áp , 'water', of the same meaning.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 February 2025. Geographical region in South Asia This article is about the geographical region. For the province of Pakistan, see Punjab, Pakistan. For the state in India, see Punjab, India. For other uses, see Punjab (disambiguation). Region Punjab ਪੰਜਾਬ (Punjabi Gurmukhi) پنجاب ...
Punjab (Punjabi: puñjāba , pronounced [pənˈdʒaːb] , ⓘ) is a state in northwestern India.Forming part of the larger Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the north and northeast, Haryana to the south and southeast, and Rajasthan to the southwest; by the Indian union territories of Jammu and Kashmir to the north and ...
Punjabi culture grew out of the settlements along the five rivers (the name Punjab, is derived from two Persian words, Panj meaning "Five" and Âb meaning "Water") which served as an important route to the Near East as early as the ancient Indus Valley civilization, dating back to 3000 BCE. [1]
The first ever recorded incursion by Arabs in India occurred around 636/7 AD, during the Rashidun Caliphate, long before any Arab army reached the frontier of India by land. [14] Uthman ibn Abi al-As al-Thaqafi , the governor of Bahrain and Oman, had dispatched naval expeditions against the Sasanian coast, and further east to the borders of ...
By Will Dunham. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like ...
After the Mutiny, Sir John Lawrence became the first Governor of Punjab. The Punjab Canal Colonies were an ambitious and largely successful project, begun in the 1880s, to create new farmland through irrigation, to relieve population pressure elsewhere (most of the areas involved are now in Pakistan).