History
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Empires, faiths, and a contested century — the Punjab's past told in order, with causes and consequences, and the level of certainty made plain at every step.
What this section covers
A long past, kept in order
Few regions have been written over as often as Punjab. It has been home to one of the world's earliest urban civilisations, a corridor for armies moving between Central and South Asia, the birthplace of the Sikh faith, the seat of a sovereign empire, and — in 1947 — the ground where a border was drawn straight through a living culture.
This section follows that story chronologically, explaining not just what happened but why, and what followed. Where the evidence is strong we say so; where scholars genuinely disagree, we set out the competing readings rather than choosing one for you. Folklore and political memory are welcome here too — clearly labelled as such, never dressed up as documented fact.
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More history articles — the Indus Valley cities, the misls, Saragarhi, and the colonial Punjab — are in preparation and will be linked here as they are published.
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