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  1. Imperial Gazetteer of India: Provincial Series, Punjab (The Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Multan Divisions and Native States), Vol. II. Keywords: India-Gazetteers Punjab-Gazetteers Lahore-Gazetteers Multan-Gazetteers Rawalpindi-Gazetteers Pakistan-Gazetteers. Issue Date: 1908. Publisher: Superintendent Government Printing, Calcutta. Source: Central ...

  2. Homo erectus lived on the Pothohar Plateau, in upper Punjab, Pakistan along the Soan River (nearby modern-day Rawalpindi) during the Pleistocene Epoch. Soanian sites are found in the Sivalik region across what are now India, Pakistan and Nepal. The Soanian culture was a prehistoric technological culture from the Siwalik Hills.

  3. On learning of the events at Multan, Currie wrote to Sir Hugh Gough, the Commander in Chief of the Bengal Army, recommending that a major British force should at once move upon Multan. However Gough, supported by Dalhousie, the Governor General, declined to order major units of the East India Company to the Punjab until the end of the hot weather and monsoon seasons, which would not be until November. [9]

  4. Lahore Division is an Administrative Division of Punjab, Pakistan. It was originally an Administrative Division of the Punjab Province of British India. It expanded along the right bank of the Sutlej River from the Himalayas to Multan, consisting of six Districts of Sialkot, Gujranwala, Lahore, Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Gujrat.

  5. The province was annexed to the British Raj and became a part of British India. The Sikh Kingdom was dissolved and the Sikh people were subjugated. The British rule in Punjab lasted until 1947 when India gained independence from Britain. The Conquest of Punjab was a major event in the history of British India.

  6. The advent of British in India opened a new era in the field of education and the vast changes and development of Indian education had mainly occurred during British era.They brought a new system of education to India which was different from earlier education system.During the British period, education was first ignored but later a series of measures continuing throughout the early half of the 20th century ultimately laid the foundation of education in modern India.

  7. Nov 18, 2018 · - Ramanjit SinghPunjab's Partition was based on British India's 1941 Census. As head of the Punjab Boundary Commission, Cyril Radcliffe took these statistics to finalize the division of the Province. (Source: Princeton University study) The notional boundary that was first disclosed to the public in June 1947 had given Gurdaspur to Pakistan. Gurdaspur had Muslim majority of 50.2% and Amritsar also had Muslims as the single largest community with a population of 45.4%. As part of the boundary aw