1st Edition

Early Nineteenth-Century Panjab

Edited By J. S. Grewal, Indu Banga Copyright 2016
248 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

246 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

246 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

The Chār Bāgh-i-Panjāb , written by Ganesh Das Wadera immediately after the annexation of the Lahore kingdom by the British in 1849, is a classic Persian text. Its long descriptive part is the only surviving account of the social, religious, and cultural life of the peoples of the Punjab, especially during the late-eighteenth and the early-nineteenth century. Ganesh Das writes about... Read more
Preface.  Introduction  Char-Bagh-i-Panjab  Appendix.  Glossary.  Classified Index.

Biography

J. S. Grewal is Honorary Director of the Institute of Punjab Studies, Chandigarh, India. A former Professor and Vice Chancellor of Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, as well as Director, and later Chairman, of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, he has written extensively on historiography, medieval India, Punjabi literature and Punjab and Sikh history.

Indu Banga is Honorary Secretary of the Institute of Punjab Studies, Chandigarh, India. A former Professor of History at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, and now Professor Emeritus at the Panjab University, Chandigarh, she has published several books and articles on agrarian and urban issues, gender relations, historiography and socio-cultural change in medieval and modern India, especially Punjab.