Punjab

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cultural region historical region

Punjab is a historically and culturally rich region of South Asia, known for its fertile agricultural lands, Sikh heritage, and partition between modern-day India and Pakistan.

Aliases (23)

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural region → historical region →
agriculturalRegionOf	India → Pakistan →
associatedWith	Maharaja Ranjit Singh → Sikh Empire →
borderedBy	Balochistan → Haryana → Himachal Pradesh → Islamabad Capital Territory → Jammu and Kashmir → Khyber Pakhtunkhwa → Rajasthan → Sindh →
culturalHeritage	Punjabi folk music → Punjabi literature → Sikh gurdwaras → Sufi shrines →
dividedBetween	Dominion of India → Dominion of Pakistan →
etymology	name means "land of five rivers" →
hasPart	Punjab, India → Punjab, Pakistan →
historicalEvent	Partition of India in 1947 →
historicalRuler	British Raj → Durrani Empire → Mughal Empire →
knownFor	Bhangra folk dance → Giddha folk dance → Punjabi cuisine → Punjabi language → fertile agricultural land → rice cultivation → wheat production →
locatedIn	Indian subcontinent → South Asia →
majorReligion	Hinduism → Islam → Sikhism →
playsRoleIn	Green Revolution in India →
primaryLanguage	Punjabi →
scriptUsed	Gurmukhi → Shahmukhi →
traditionalClothing	salwar kameez → turban →
traversedBy	Beas River → Chenab River → Indus River → Jhelum River → Ravi River → Sutlej River →

Referenced by (219)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Akali Phula Singh → Battle of the Hydaspes ("Punjab region") → Chandigarh ("Punjab region") → Government College, Lahore → Gurmukhi → Gurmukhi ("Indian Punjab") → Gurmukhi ("Pakistani Punjab") → Guru Nanak → Jallianwala Bagh massacre → Lahnda ("Punjab region") → Malwai dialect → Punjabi cinema ("Punjab, India") → Punjabi cuisine → Punjabi language ("Punjab region") → Ravi → Simly Lake ("Punjab region") → Tomb of Jahangir, Lahore →	region
Amritsar → Banga, Punjab, British India → Beas River → Doaba → Indira Gandhi Canal → Indo-Greek Kingdoms ("Punjab region") → Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial → Lahore Central Jail, Lahore, British India → Lahore Conspiracy Case → Malwa (Punjab) ("Punjab, India") → Pathankot → Ravi ("Punjab region") → Ravi River ("Punjab region") → Sikh Confederacy ("Punjab region") →	locatedIn
Beas River → Gujranwala → Haryana ("Punjab region") → Hisar district ("Punjab region") → Jhang → Karnal district ("Punjab region") → Panipat district ("Punjab region") → Punjabi people ("Punjab region") → Ravi ("Greater Punjab") → Ravi River → Sharada script ("Punjab region") →	historicalRegion
Doabi dialect → Dogri ("Punjab, India") → Kangri ("Punjab, India") → Malwai dialect ("Punjab, India") → Marwari ("Punjab (India)") → Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages ("Punjab region") → Punjabi language ("Punjab, India") → Punjabi language ("Punjab, Pakistan") → Rajasthani ("Punjab (India)") → Saraiki ("Punjab, Pakistan") →	spokenIn
Abdus Salam ("Punjab, British India") → Bhagat Singh → Faiz Ahmed Faiz → Guru Nanak ("Punjab region") → Liaquat Ali Khan ("Punjab, British India") → Maharaja Ranjit Singh ("Punjab region") → Reginald Dyer → Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ("Lahore") → Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar →	placeOfBirth
Azad Jammu and Kashmir ("Punjab, Pakistan") → Baluchistan (Chief Commissioner's Province) ("Punjab (British India)") → Jammu and Kashmir ("Punjab, India") → Rajputana Agency → United Provinces ("Punjab Province") → United Provinces of Agra and Oudh →	borderedBy
Bhagat Singh → Guru Nanak ("Punjab region") → Maharaja Ranjit Singh ("Punjab region") → Nathuram Godse ("East Punjab") → Nathuram Godse ("East Punjab") → Nathuram Godse ("East Punjab") →	placeOfDeath
Lodi dynasty → Lodi dynasty → Maratha Empire ("Punjab (briefly, via influence)") → Sikh Empire ("Punjab region") → Sur Empire → Tughlaq dynasty →	territoryIncludes
Anglo-Sikh Wars ("Punjab region") → Battle of the Hydaspes → Jallianwala Bagh massacre 1919 → Swadeshi movement → Vedic period ("Punjab region") →	location
Hari Singh Nalwa → Hindustan Socialist Republican Army → Lal Bal Pal → Lal-Bal-Pal trio → Sher Singh →	regionOfActivity
Bhangra → Khusrav Mirza ("Punjab region") → Michael O’Dwyer → Rajputs ("Punjab region") →	associatedWith
Chenab River ("Punjab, Pakistan") → Ravi ("Indian state of Punjab") → Sutlej River ("Punjab, India") → Sutlej River ("Punjab, Pakistan") →	flowsThrough
Doaba ("Punjab region") → Majha ("Punjab region") → Malwa (Punjab) ("Punjab region") → Multan ("Punjab region") →	partOf
Allama Muhammad Iqbal → Aruna Asaf Ali ("Punjab Province, British India") → Udham Singh →	birthPlace
Amrit Sanchar → Bhangra → Iravati ("Greater Punjab") →	culturalRegion
Punjabi literature ("Punjab region") → Punjabi literature ("Indian Punjab") → Punjabi literature ("Pakistani Punjab") →	hasMajorRegion
Dhol → Landa scripts ("Punjab region") → Sikh rupee →	usedInRegion
Company rule in India → Hunter Commission →	appliesToJurisdiction
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ("Punjab (Pakistan)") → Sind ("Punjab, Pakistan") →	borders
Haryana → Rajasthan →	bordersState
Teej → Vaisakhi →	celebratedInRegion
Ghaznavid Empire → Ghurid Empire →	expandedInto
Punjab ("Punjab, India") → Punjab ("Punjab, Pakistan") →	hasPart
Government of Punjab ("Punjab, India") → Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association →	jurisdiction
Golden Temple, Amritsar → Harmandir Sahib →	locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity
Iravati → Jhelum River ("Punjab region") →	locatedInRegion
Sikhism ("Punjab, India") → Sikhism ("Punjab, Pakistan") →	majorPopulationRegion
Thar Desert ("Punjab, India") → Thar Desert ("Punjab, Pakistan") →	partlyIn
Reginald Dyer → Reginald Dyer →	placeOfEvent
Anglo-Sikh Wars → Treaty of Lahore (1846) →	regionAffected
Bahlul Lodi → Kharak Singh →	regionRuled
John Nicholson → Michael O’Dwyer →	residence
Majhi dialect ("Punjab region") → Majhi dialect ("Indian Punjab") →	usedIn
Hindustan Socialist Republican Association →	activeIn
Radcliffe Line ("Punjab (India)") →	affectsRegion
Romani →	ancestralConnection
Indo-Mauritians →	ancestralOrigin
Treaty of Amritsar (1809) →	appliesToTerritory
John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence →	areaOfAdministration
Delhi Sultanate →	areaOfInfluence
Parushni →	associatedWithRegion
Thein Dam →	beneficiaryState
Guru Angad →	birthRegion
Sindh →	bordersProvince
Himachal Pradesh →	borderState
Bhagat Singh →	burialPlace
Lohri →	celebratedIn
Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq →	conductedCampaignsIn
Indus River basin →	containsRegion
Northern India →	containsStateOrUT
Sher Singh →	countryRuled
Haryana →	createdFrom
Ravi River ("Punjab, Pakistan") →	crossesProvince
Ravi River ("Punjab, India") →	crossesState
Guru Angad →	deathRegion
High Court of Punjab and Haryana ("State of Punjab") →	establishedFor
Indus Valley ("Punjab region") →	extendsInto
Sikhism →	foundedInRegion
Landa scripts →	geographicSpread
British East India Company ("Punjab (after annexation)") →	governedTerritory
Government of Punjab ("Punjab, India") →	governs
Punjabi cinema ("Punjab region") →	hasAudience
Beas River ("Punjab plains") →	hasFloodplain
Indian campaign ("Punjab region") →	hasLocation
Pakistan ("Punjab, Pakistan") →	hasProvince
Majha ("British Punjab Province") →	historicallyPartOf
Doaba →	historicalRegionOf
Nikki Haley ("Punjab, India") →	immigrantParentsFrom
British India →	includedTerritory
Chandigarh →	isCapitalOf
Ambala Central Jail ("Punjab Province, British India") →	locatedInFormerEntity
Dhudike, Punjab, British India ("Punjab, India") →	locatedInPresentDay
Ambala →	locatedNear
Partition of India ("Punjab region") →	locationAffected
Servants of the People Society →	locationOfFormation
Treaty of Amritsar (1809) →	locationSigned
Duleep Singh →	monarchOf
Ravi River ("Punjab, Pakistan") →	mouthLocation
Punjabi people →	nativeToRegion
Chandigarh →	nearbyState
Makar Sankranti →	observedInState
Punjabi language ("Punjab, India") →	officialLanguageOf
Sikh people ("Punjab region") →	originatedIn
Bhangra ("Punjab region") →	originatesFrom
Hindi Belt →	partiallyIncludesState
Gujranwala ("Greater Punjab economic region") →	partOfRegion
Indus River ("Punjab, Pakistan") →	passesThroughRegion
Sikh people ("Punjab, India") →	populationCenter
Dhudike, Punjab, British India ("Punjab, India") →	presentDayState
British Indian Army →	recruitmentRegions
Punjab Kesari →	regionAssociatedWith
Radcliffe Line →	regionCovered
Kapoor →	regionOfOrigin
aloo paratha →	regionOfPopularity
Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh →	regionServed
Multani ("Southwestern Punjab") →	regionType
The Butcher of Amritsar →	relatedTo
High Court of Punjab and Haryana ("State of Punjab") →	servesJurisdiction
Kandla Port →	servesState
India as I Knew It →	setting
Mongol invasions of India ("Punjab region") →	significantPlace
Doaba →	state
Chandigarh →	stateOrUTCapitalOf
Ahmad Shah Durrani →	territorialExtent
Maharaja Ranjit Singh →	territoryRuled
Singh →	widelyUsedIn
नाथूराम विनायक गोडसे ("पंजाब (तत्कालीन)") →	मृत्यु_स्थान