The land of five waters gave the world its first cities, its saints and its songs. Broken by every empire that crossed it, it is still ours to remember, and to make whole again.

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Land & Ages

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

CulturePoets, qisse, songs, music, dance, festivals, foodMuseumSculpture, coins, manuscripts, painting, arms, buildings, and where to see themChronicles & ProphecyThe poetry of the old chroniclesAboutWhat this atlas is, its sources, and every word explainedHelp maintain this siteCorrections, pictures, sources and new entries
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Ferozepur
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City or fort

Ferozepur

ਫ਼ਿਰੋਜ਼ਪੁਰفیروز پور

British frontier station on the Sutlej from 1838, base for the First Anglo-Sikh War.

Ferozepur, on the Sutlej, was founded by Firoz Shah Tughlaq in the fourteenth century. In 1838 the British made it a frontier station facing the Sikh kingdom, and it was the base for the First Anglo-Sikh War.

The Saragarhi memorial gurdwara stands in the cantonment. The border with Pakistan at Hussainiwala, nearby, has the memorial of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev, where they were secretly cremated.

It is now a border district of Indian Punjab.

Ferozepur, Punjab, India

People

Acharya Vijayanand Suri (Atmaramji)
Acharya Vijayanand Suri (Atmaramji)1837 – 1896

Jain monk born near Ferozepur who revived the Svetambara order in the Punjab; his samadhi stands at Gujranwala.

Bano Qudsia
Bano Qudsia1928 – 2017

Novelist born in Ferozepur whose Raja Gidh is one of the most read Urdu novels in Pakistan.

Iftikhar Hussain Mamdot
Iftikhar Hussain Mamdot1906 – 1969

The Nawab of Mamdot, Muslim League leader in the Punjab and first Chief Minister of West Punjab.

On the timeline

1876 · Atmaramji becomes Vijayanand Suri
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