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Punjab pronunciation (help·info) (Punjabi: ਪੰਜਾਬ) is a state in northwest India and forms a part of the larger Punjab region, which also includes the province of Punjab (Pakistan),the Indian states of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh and Delhi and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. Punjab (India) borders Punjab (Pakistan)to the west, Jammu and Kashmir to the north, Himachal Pradesh to the northeast, Haryana to the south and southeast, Chandigarh to the southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest. The total area of the state is 50,362 square kilometres (19,445 square miles). The population is 24,289,296 (2000). Punjab's capital is Chandigarh which is administered separately as a Union Territory since it is also the capital of neighbouring Haryana. Other major cities of Punjab include Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Patiala. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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Map showing the population density of each state in India India houses a population of 1,192,225,812 people (2006), comprising approximately one-sixth of humankind. ...
Map showing the population density of each state in India India houses a population of 1,192,225,812 people (2006), comprising approximately one-sixth of humankind. ...
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Punjabi (also Panjabi; in GurmukhÄ«, PanjÄbÄ« in ShÄhmukhÄ«) is the language of the Punjabi people and the Punjab regions of India and Pakistan. ...
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Punjabi (also Panjabi; in GurmukhÄ«, PanjÄbÄ« in ShÄhmukhÄ«) is the language of the Punjabi people and the Punjab regions of India and Pakistan. ...
India is subdivided into twenty-eight states, six union territories and the National Capital Territory. ...
Punjab, 1903 Punjab Province, 1909 The Punjab (meaning: Land of five Rivers; also Panjab, Gurmukhi: ਪੰਜਾਬ, Shahmukhi: پنجاب) is a region straddling the border between India and Pakistan. ...
Punjab, 1903 Punjab Province, 1909 The Punjab (Meaning: Land of five Rivers) (also Panjab, Gurmukhi: ਪੰਜਾਬ, Shahmukhi: پنجاب) is a region straddling the border between India and Pakistan. ...
Haryana (Hindi: ) is a state in north India. ...
Himachal Pradesh (Devanagari: िहमाचल पà¥à¤°à¤¦à¥‡à¤¶), formally the Punjab Hill States, is a mostly mountainous state in northwest India. ...
Known in India as the Lotus Temple, the Baháà House of Worship is one of the most famous landmarks in Delhi. ...
Location of Chandigarh Chandigarh (Punjabi: , Hindi: ), also called The City Beautiful, is a city in India that serves as the capital of two states: Punjab and Haryana. ...
Jammu and Kashmir (Kashmiri: جۄم ØªÙ•Û Ú©Ù”Ø´Ùیر जà¥à¤µà¤® त॒ कॅशीर, Urdu:جموں Ùˆ کشمیر, Hindi:जमà¥à¤®à¥‚ और कशà¥à¤®à¥€à¤°) (often abbreviated as Kashmir), is the northern-most state of Republic of India, lying mostly in the Himalayan mountains. ...
Rajasthan (राजसà¥à¤¥à¤¾à¤¨) is the largest state of the Republic of India in terms of area. ...
Amritsar (Punjabi: , , Hindi: . ), meaning Pool of the Nectar of Immortality, is the administrative headquarter of the Amritsar District in Punjab, India. ...
Jalandhar (Punjabi: ) is an ancient city in the state of Punjab, India. ...
Ludhiana (Punjabi: ) in India is the largest city in Punjab. ...
Patiala is a city in the Punjab state of India. ...
The word "Punjab" is a combination of the Persian words 'Panj' (پانج) five, and 'Aab' (آب) water, giving the literal meaning of the Land of the Five Rivers. The five rivers after which Punjab is named after are the Jhelum; the Chenab; the Ravi; the Beas and the Sutlej. In 1947, the Punjab was partitioned between newly-independent India and Pakistan along religious lines, with the mostly Sikh and Hindu eastern portion going to India and the Muslim western portion of the region going to Pakistan. Punjab is a predominantly agricultural state. The largest grown crop is wheat. Other important crops are rice, cotton, sugarcane, millet, maize, barley and fruit. Textiles and flour milling are the major industries. Road, rail and river transport links are extensive throughout the region. Persian is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ...
The Jhelum River is the largest and most western of the five rivers of the Punjab province of Pakistan, and passes through Jhelum City. ...
The Chenab River (Punjabi: , , Urdu: , literally Moon(Chen) River(ab)) is formed by the confluence of the Chandra and Bhaga rivers at Tandi located in the upper Himalayas, in the Lahaul district of Himachal Pradesh, India. ...
The Ravi River (Punjabi: , Urdu: ) is a river in India and Pakistan. ...
The Beas River (Punjabi: ) runs through the Northwestern Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab. ...
The Sutlej is a river that flows through Northern India, with its source in Tibet. ...
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A Sikh man wearing a turban A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism, a religious faith originating in the Punjab. ...
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Religion
Punjab is one of the five states in India that does not have a Hindu majority. Sikhism is the main religion of Indian Punjab, and is the persuasion of about 65% of the population. The holiest of Sikh shrines, the Harmandir Sahib, popularly known as the Golden Temple, is located in the city of Amritsar which is considered to be a holy city by the Sikhs. Amritsar is also a place of religious significance for Jains. The Golden Temple is a sacred shrine for Sikhs Sikhism (Punjabi: , , [], in English pronounced or ), is a monotheistic religion based on the teachings of ten Gurus who lived in northern India during the 16th and 17th centuries. ...
A Sikh man wearing a turban A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism, a religious faith originating in the Punjab. ...
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The Golden Temple The Golden Temple is also known as Harmandir Sahib or Hari Mandir by the Sikhs. ...
A Sikh man wearing a turban The adherents of Sikhism are called Sikhs. ...
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The language of the people of Punjab, on both sides of the international border, is Punjabi; however, the alphabet used is different (Gurmukhi on the Indian side and Shahmukhi on Pakistani side). Punjabi (also Panjabi; in GurmukhÄ«, PanjÄbÄ« in ShÄhmukhÄ«) is the language of the Punjabi people and the Punjab regions of India and Pakistan. ...
The Gurmukhi (ਗà©à¨°à¨®à©à¨–à©€ or ਗà©à¨°à¨®à©à©±à¨–à©€) script, derived from the Later Sharada script and standardised by Guru Angad Dev in the 16th century, was designed to write the Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) language. ...
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History - Main article: History of Punjab
The Indian state of Punjab was created in 1947, when the Partition of India split the former Raj province of Punjab between India and Pakistan. The mostly Muslim western part of the province became Pakistan's Punjab Province; the mostly Sikh and Hindu eastern part became India's Punjab state. Many Hindus and Sikhs lived in the west, and many Muslims lived in the east, and so the partition saw many people displaced and much intercommunal violence. Several small Punjabi princely states, including Patiala, also became part of India. In 1950, two separate states were created; Punjab included of the former Raj province of Punjab, while the princely states were combined into a new state, the Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU). PEPSU consisted of the princely states of Patiala, Nabha, Jind, Kapurthala, Malerkotla, Faridkot and Kalsia.Himachal Pradesh was created as a union territory from several princely states and Kangra District. In 1956, PEPSU was merged into Punjab state, and several northern districts of Punjab in the Himalayas were added to Himachal Pradesh. // Introduction The first known use of the word Punjab is in the book Tarikh-e-Sher Shah (1580), which mentions the construction of a fort by Sher Khan of Punjab. The name is mentioned again in Ain-e-Akbari (part 1), written by Abul Fazal, who also mentions that the...
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Punjab, 1903 Punjab Province, 1909 The Punjab (meaning: Land of five Rivers; also Panjab, Gurmukhi: ਪੰਜਾਬ, Shahmukhi: پنجاب) is a region straddling the border between India and Pakistan. ...
A princely state or native state was a feudal monarchy in British India ruled by a hereditary ruler, who was nominally sovereign. ...
Patiala is a city in the Punjab state of India. ...
The Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU) was a former state of India. ...
Nabha is a city of northwestern India, in southeastern Punjab state. ...
Jind is a town in Jind District, Haryana state, India. ...
Sainik School, Kapurthala Kapurthala (Punjabi: ) is a city in Punjab state of India. ...
Malerkotla is a town in the present-day Indian state of Punjab, which was the seat of the eponymous princely state during the British Raj. ...
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A Union Territory is an administrative division of India. ...
Kangra is a town in Kangra District of Himachal Pradesh state in northern India, and lends its name to the district of the same name. ...
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Himachal Pradesh (Devanagari: िहमाचल पà¥à¤°à¤¦à¥‡à¤¶), formally the Punjab Hill States, is a mostly mountainous state in northwest India. ...
The capital of undivided Punjab province, Lahore, ended up in Pakistan after partition, so a new capital for Indian Punjab state was built at Chandigarh. On November 1, 1966, the mostly Hindu southeastern half of Punjab became a separate state, Haryana. Chandigarh was on the border between the two states, and became a separate union territory which serves as the capital of both Punjab and Haryana. Chandigarh was due to transfer to Punjab alone in 1986, but the transfer has been delayed. The Minar-e-Pakistan represents Pakistani independence The Hazuri Bagh, looking towards the Roshnai Gate The Hazuri Bagh, looking towards the Roshnai Gate in 1870 Lahore (Urdu: لاÛور) is a major city of Pakistan and is the capital of the province of Punjab. ...
A Union Territory is an administrative division of India. ...
During the 1970s, the Green Revolution brought increased economic prosperity for the Sikh community in Punjab. However, a growing polarisation between the Congress led Indian government and the main political part of the Sikhs, the Shiromani Akali Dal, began to widen during the 1970's. The hostility and bitterness arose from what was widely seen by the Sikhs as increasing alienation, centarlization and discriminatory attitudes towards Punjab by the Government of India. This prompted the Shiromani Akali Dal to unanimously pass the Anandpur Sahib Resolution which among other things called for granting maximum autonomy for the Punjab and other states and limiting the role and powers of the Central Government. The Anandpur Sahib Resolution was rejected and dubbed as being of a hidden separatist agenda. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...
The Green Revolution is the increase in food production stemming from the improved strains of wheat, rice, maize and other cereals in the 1960s developed by Dr Norman Borlaug and others under the sponsorship of the Rockefeller Foundation and other organizations. ...
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Akali Dal, also termed as Shiromani Akali Dal (Akali Religious Party), is a Sikh political party mainly based in Punjab, India. ...
The Anandpur Resolution or Anandpur Sahib Resolution was a political statement made by a Sikh political party, the Shiromani Akali Dal in 1973. ...
The situation in Punjab deteriorated rapidly after the Indian army's assault on the Golden Temple in June, 1984. The army assault on the Golden Temple sparked off a full-fledged armed struggle against the Indian government by some Sikhs who demanded an independent state to be called Khalistan. The Indian government's reaction to the movement for Khalistan was to declare Punjab as a disturbed area and to grant the security forces draconian powers in the hopes of crushing the militancy and support for an independent state by force(Operation Blackthunder - I & II and Operation Woodrose). Akal Takht building after Operation Blue Star The Operation Blue Star (June 4 to June 6, 1984) was the Indian military attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, the holiest temple of the Sikh religion. ...
The Golden Temple The Golden Temple is also known as Harmandir Sahib or Hari Mandir by the Sikhs. ...
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By the early 1990s, after many years of violence across Punjab, the militant struggle for Khalistan lost much of the sympathy it had previously had from the Sikh masses and what little armed resistance remained was eliminated and forced underground.
Districts Punjab state is divided into 18 administrative districts: Amritsar, Bathinda, Firozpur , Faridkot , Fatehgarh Sahib, Gurudaspur, Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Kapurthala , Ludhiana, Mansa, Moga, Muktsar , Nawan Shahr , Patiala, Rupnagar,Sahibjada Ajit Singh Nagar Mohali and Sangrur. Amritsar district is one of 17 districts in the state of Punjab in North West India. ...
Bathinda District Bathinda District encompasses an area of 3,344 square kilometres. ...
The Firozpur is a district in Punjab, India. ...
Faridkot district is one of the seventeen districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India. ...
Fatehgarh Sahib district is one of the seventeen districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India. ...
Gurdaspur District is a district in the state of Punjab, situated in the northwest part of India. ...
The District of Hoshiarpur comprises an area of 3,365 sq. ...
Jalandhar district is one of the seventeen districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India. ...
Kapurthala District is a district of Punjab state in northern India. ...
Ludhiana district is one of the seventeen districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India. ...
Mansa District is situated in Punjab, India. ...
Moga district is one of the seventeen districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India. ...
Muktsar district is one of the seventeen districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India. ...
Nawan Shahr district is one of the seventeen districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India. ...
Patiala is a district of Punjab, India. ...
Rupnagar District, included in the Patiala Division of Punjab falls between north latitude 30°-32 and 31°-24 and east longitude 76°-18 and 76°-55. Rupnagar (formerly known as Ropar) town, the district headquarters is 42 Kms from Chandigarh, the state capital. ...
Mohali is a city just next to Chandigarh, in Punjab, India. ...
Sangrur district is one of the seventeen districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India. ...
Economy Punjab's gross state domestic product for 2004 is estimated at $27 billion in current prices.
Agriculture Historically, Punjab (the five rivers region) has been one of the most fertile regions on earth. The region is ideal for wheat-growing.Rice, sugar cane, fruits and vegetables are also grown. Indian Punjab and is called the "Granary of India" or "India's bread-basket." It produces 60% of India's wheat, and 40% of India's rice. In worldwide terms, this represents 1/30th or 3% of the world's production of these crops, so Indian Punjab produces 2% of the world's cotton, 2% of its wheat and 1% of the world's rice. Earth is the current Good Article Collaboration of the week! Please help to improve this article to the highest of standards. ...
Vegetables on a market Vegetable is a nutritional and culinary term denoting any part of a plant that is commonly consumed by humans as food, but is not regarded as a culinary fruit, nut, herb, spice, or grain. ...
Indian Punjab is considered to have the best infrastructure in India. The Punjabi people are statistically on average the wealthiest in India.
All data for the agricultural output for the Indian State of Punjab is acquired from the Official Government of India Website for the Indian state of Punjab.
Politics List of political parties in the state
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Punjab (Punjabi: ) is a state in northwest India and forms a part of the larger Punjab region, which also includes the Punjab province of Pakistan and the Indian states of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. ...
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Location of Chandigarh Chandigarh (Punjabi: , Hindi: ), also called The City Beautiful, is a city in India that serves as the capital of two states: Punjab and Haryana. ...
Punjab, a state of India, has currently (2006) seventeen administrative districts, as noted below: Amritsar, Bathinda, Firozpur, Faridkot, Fatehgarh Sahib, Gurudaspur, Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Ludhiana, Mansa, Moga, Muktsar, Nawan Shahr, Patiala, Rupnagar, and Sangrur. ...
Amritsar district is one of 17 districts in the state of Punjab in North West India. ...
Bathinda District Bathinda District encompasses an area of 3,344 square kilometres. ...
The Firozpur is a district in Punjab, India. ...
Faridkot district is one of the seventeen districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India. ...
Fatehgarh Sahib district is one of the seventeen districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India. ...
Gurdaspur District is a district in the state of Punjab, situated in the northwest part of India. ...
The District of Hoshiarpur comprises an area of 3,365 sq. ...
Jalandhar district is one of the seventeen districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India. ...
Kapurthala District is a district of Punjab state in northern India. ...
Ludhiana district is one of the seventeen districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India. ...
Mansa District is situated in Punjab, India. ...
Moga district is one of the seventeen districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India. ...
Muktsar district is one of the seventeen districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India. ...
Nawan Shahr district is one of the seventeen districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India. ...
Patiala is a district of Punjab, India. ...
Rupnagar District, included in the Patiala Division of Punjab falls between north latitude 30°-32 and 31°-24 and east longitude 76°-18 and 76°-55. Rupnagar (formerly known as Ropar) town, the district headquarters is 42 Kms from Chandigarh, the state capital. ...
Mohali is a city just next to Chandigarh, in Punjab, India. ...
Sangrur district is one of the seventeen districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India. ...
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