Majha-Doaba-Malwa

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Majha-Doaba-Malwa refers to the three traditional geographic-cultural regions that together make up the historic heartland of Punjab.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural region
cultural region
cultural region
cultural region grouping
geographical region
geographical region
geographical region
geographical region grouping
historic region of Punjab
administrativeStatus not an official modern administrative unit
agriculturalSignificance core of Punjab’s agrarian economy
country India
culturalSignificance historic heartland of Punjabi culture
describedAs three traditional geographic-cultural regions that form the historic heartland of Punjab
ethnolinguisticRegion Punjabi people
hasPart Doaba
Majha
Malwa
historicalContext traditional tripartite division of Punjabi-speaking heartland
historicalEra Sikh Empire period
pre-colonial Punjab
language Punjabi language
surface form: Punjabi
locatedIn South Asia
surface form: Indian subcontinent

northern India
surface form: North India

between Beas and Sutlej rivers
between Ravi and Beas rivers
south of Sutlej river
majorCity Amritsar
Bathinda
Gurdaspur
Hoshiarpur
Jalandhar
Ludhiana
Patiala
partOf Punjab
primaryReligion Hinduism
Islam
Sikhism
regionType traditional region
religiousSignificance important to Punjabi Hindu traditions
important to Sikh history
usedIn cultural discourse
historical geography of Punjab

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Doaba partOfTraditionalDivisionOfPunjab Majha-Doaba-Malwa
Doaba (Punjab) partOf Majha-Doaba-Malwa
this entity surface form: Majha-Malwa-Doaba division of Punjab regions