Jalandhar
Ancient capital of the Bist Doab; annexed by Ranjit Singh in 1811 and by the British in 1846.
Jalandhar is an ancient city of the Bist Doab, between the Beas and the Sutlej, mentioned in the Puranas. It was the seat of a Mughal faujdar and of Adina Beg.
Ranjit Singh annexed it in 1811, and the British took the whole Doab in 1846. It became a centre of sports goods manufacturing after Partition and of emigration to Britain and Canada.
The Doaba around it is the most emigrant region of Punjab, and its villages are full of the houses of families abroad.
People
Ghazal singer from a Punjabi Sikh family who brought the ghazal to a mass audience in India.
Centre-forward from the Doaba who won three Olympic hockey golds for India and scored five goals in the 1952 final.
Wily faujdar of the Jalandhar Doab who played Mughals, Afghans, Marathas and Sikhs against one another and in 1758 briefly became governor of all Punjab.
Ranjit Singh's leading general in the early conquests, victor over the Afghans at Attock in 1813.
Farmer from Beas Pind near Jalandhar who began running marathons at 89 in London and ran one at 100.
Defender from Mithapur near Jalandhar who captained India's hockey team at two Olympics.
Mill worker from Dosanjh Kalan who became Premier of British Columbia, the first Indo-Canadian to lead a Canadian province.
Army chief born in Jalandhar who seized power in Pakistan in 1977, hanged Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and ruled for eleven years.
Ghadar revolutionary who came home to found the Ad-Dharm movement of Punjab's Dalits in 1926.
Rice breeder from a village near Jalandhar whose varieties, grown across Asia, helped feed hundreds of millions of people.
The Congress leader who became the first Chief Minister of East Punjab in August 1947.
Battles
Artifacts
Furniture, boxes and doors of dark sheesham wood inlaid with fine floral patterns in ivory, bone and brass, the specialty of Hoshiarpur's craftsmen.
A walled inn on the imperial road, built in Nur Jahan's name, with carved sandstone gateways of elephants, horsemen and birds.
On the timeline
In the world's museums
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India, Panjab, Jalandhar, circa 1840-1845 Drawings; watercolors Opaque watercolor, goldLACMA, Los Angeles · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗
Textile, Jalandharc.1881-2 · Jalandhar© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗
Textile, Jalandharca. 1881-82 · Jalandhar© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗
Chenille ornamentc.1855 · Jalandhar© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗