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The LandRivers, doabs, Harappa and the first cities, seasons, numbersAgesEight ages of the Punjab, from the Soan to todayTimelineEvery dated event on one lineAtlasEvery place on one map, age by agePlacesCities, ancient sites, temples, mosques and gurdwaras, battlefieldsLanguage & scriptsPunjabi, its dialects, Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi

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Kingdoms & Struggles

Kingdoms & WarsWho ruled the Punjab, the Kingdom of Lahore, and the battles fought over itWho ruled the PunjabEvery ruling power, 518 BCE to todayWars & BattlesFrom the Hydaspes to BasantarStruggles & Partitions1849, 1919, 1947, 1966, 1984, 2020

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Amarinder Singh
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Amarinder Singh

ਅਮਰਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘامریندر سنگھ

Son of the last Maharaja of Patiala, soldier and twice Chief Minister, who quit Parliament in protest at the army's attack on the Darbar Sahib in 1984.

Amarinder Singh is the son of Maharaja Yadavindra Singh, the last ruler of Patiala. He served in the Sikh Regiment and fought in the 1965 war before entering politics with the Congress party.

In June 1984 he resigned from Parliament and from the Congress in protest at Operation Blue Star. He later returned to the Congress and was Chief Minister from 2002 to 2007, when his government passed a law cancelling Punjab's water-sharing agreements with its neighbours, and again from 2017 to 2021. Forced out by his own party in 2021, he formed a new one and then joined the BJP.

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