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Punjab Summary
1,464 words, approx. 5 pages
Literally the land of the "five rivers" from the Persian words panj (five) and ab (water), the name "Panjab" (Punjab in English) identifies a large alluvial plain in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, defined...
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Punjab region Information
2,812 words, approx. 9 pages
Punjab [ˈpʌnʤɑb] (help·info) (Punjabi: ਪੰਜਾਬ, پنجاب, Hindi: पंजाब, Urdu: پنجاب), also Panjab (Persian: پنجاب, meaning "Land of the Five Rivers") (c.f. ap-), is a region straddling the border between India and...


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Commonwealth & Comparative Politics
Region and Partition: Bengal, Punjab and the Partition of the Subcontinent.(Book Review)
07/01/2002: 874 words, approx. 3 pages
Edited by Ian Talbot and Gurharpal Singh (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2000, first published 1999, pp.viii + 407, 16.99 [pounds sterling] hb). Despite a spate of books which appeared on the fiftieth anniversary of independence of India and Pakistan, complex issues leading to...
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Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics
Economic viability and equity issues in financial institutional reforms: A study of regional rural banks in Punjab
10/01/2000: 5,631 words, approx. 19 pages
The large scale persistence of rural poverty brought into focus the significance of adoption of measures which aimed directly at improving the access of the rural poor to production resources, particularly the commercial bank credit which was virtually non-available to the small borrowers and...
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AP News
Strike quiets Punjab after clash
5/22/2007: 322 words, approx. 1 pages
Streets were deserted and shops closed across the northern Indian state of Punjab after Sikh leaders called a general strike Tuesday in the wake of a clashes with a quasi-religious sect that have left one person dead, police and religious leaders said.Thousands of police officers...
 


 

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