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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

People & Faiths

PeopleSaints and teachers, poets and singers, rulers, rebels, the people of both PunjabsPeople of the landJats, Rajputs, Arains, Khatris, Dalit communities and more, across every faithFaithsHindu traditions, Islam and the Sufis, Sikhi, and the Punjab's other faiths

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

Culture & Museum

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Prithviraj Kapoor
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Prithviraj Kapoor

ਪ੍ਰਿਥਵੀਰਾਜ ਕਪੂਰپرتھوی راج کپور

Actor from Lyallpur and Peshawar who starred in India's first talkie, founded Prithvi Theatres and began the Kapoor dynasty of Bombay cinema.

Prithviraj Kapoor was born in Samundri in Lyallpur district and studied in Peshawar. He went to Bombay in 1928, acted in Alam Ara (1931), India's first sound film, and became one of the great stars of the early screen.

In 1944 he founded Prithvi Theatres, which toured India with plays about Partition and the poor. His Akbar in Mughal-e-Azam (1960) is legendary. His sons Raj, Shammi and Shashi and their children made the Kapoors the first family of Hindi cinema.

Places linked to Prithviraj Kapoor, numbered in order
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