Quotes About Punjab

Recruit new soldiers for the Empire's armies from rural Punjab but underscore every recruit's distinct religion and caste

In March 1748, different Sikh jathas or groups agreed to form a Dal Khalsa, an army of the Singhs, under the leadership of another Jassa Singh—Jassa Singh Ahluwalia81—who advanced the idea that the Khalsa should one day govern Punjab.

Probably between half a million and eight hundred thousand in all were killed in Punjab in 1947.

Lajpat Rai, by this time a member of the Central Assembly. Writing a series of articles in the Tribune (November and December 1924), Rai argued that since Punjabi Muslims were unwilling to grant weightage to Hindus and Sikhs, Punjab should be partitioned into Muslim-majority and Hindu-majority portions. (He proposed a similar solution for Bengal.)

Though Dyer and O'Dwyer had destroyed love for the Empire, desire for its titles and positions survived in Punjab.

the Company 'had long cast covetous eyes on [Punjab]'108. Ranjit Singh did not miss this reality.

Chand Kaur seems to have offered the British 'a large slice' of Punjab if they supported her against Sher Singh, who too was willing to cede a portion of the kingdom to the British if they backed him against Chand Kaur.

despite the clashes we have been recording—amity 'among Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs… subsisted in the eighteenth century' in Punjab.

Out of a total of 683,149 combatant troops recruited in India between August 1914 and November 1918, 349,688—about sixty percent—came from the Punjab.

nobody in India will love me for the award about the Punjab and Bengal and there will be roughly 80 million people with a grievance who will begin looking for me. I do not want them to find me . . .

I always maintained I'm a good simple boy from Punjab. Some chose not to believe me. Now the same people are happy to work with me.

I feel sorry that whenever anybody raises his voice in the AAP in Punjab's interest, it is suppressed.

Before Shah Shuja's arrival, Ludhiana was known mainly as a centre of the flesh trade, through which girls from the Punjab Hill States and Kashmir – considered the fairest and most beautiful in the region – passed into slavery in the Sikh-controlled Punjab and Hindustan.

My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.

We will protect Punjab's right over its river waters and fight hard to get back Chandigarh and Punjabi-speaking areas.

We will stand by Punjab, Punjabis and Punjabiat, unlike Parkash Singh Badal, who makes Chandigarh, river waters and other emotive issues his bread and butter during the elections.

I shall never come to the Punjab again; it is such a hopeless place.

Industry has left Punjab. Economy has collapsed.

The Modi government says the farm laws will open agriculture to the corporate world. Who says this not already open to corporate sector? In Punjab, we have Pepsi and ITC buying potatoes. All my kinnows from Hoshiarpur and Ferozepur are going to Chennai. The system is already open.

We have controlled the law and order to ensure that the people of Punjab can live and breathe in peace, without fear.

Four places in the country hold great importance in my life - Punjab, where I was born, Nagpur, where I did my engineering and where my wife is from, Bombay where I work and obviously, Hyderabad, where I learnt the craft of cinema.

As the Prime Minister of India, Modiji is as much responsible for the welfare of Punjab as I am and his political affiliations are really not material when it comes to the betterment of any State or its people, including Punjab.

Doing politics over water is not good as people from Punjab and Haryana are also our own like that of Delhi. Everyone should get water.

The electricity tariff in Punjab is highest in north India, and it should be decreased.