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...

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...

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...

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...

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...