Punjab Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
geographic region divided between Pakistan and India
About Punjab
Being well-watered and relatively flat, the Punjab has always been one of the more prosperous regions of the subcontinent. Being valuable and flat, it has been conquered many times. In ancient history, it was part of thePersian Empire, theMaurya Empireand the empire ofAlexander the Great. Later it was a province of theMughal Empire, then the centre of a Sikh Empire, and (after two Anglo-Sikh wars in the 1840s), part ofBritish India. In 1947, British India was split into two independent countries, India and Pakistan. The British Punjab province was divided along religious lines. India got the eastern part of the province, with the capital beingChandigarh. Pakistan got the western part of the province, with the capital beingLahore. The Punjab was the birthplace ofSikhismand Sikhism is the ma
Punjab Travel Guide Sections
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