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The Punjab Past and Present. A Souvenir of the Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Indian Science Congress Association Held at Lahore January 1939

1939

Naturally the scenery of the land is varied from the gorgeous snow-clad peaks of the Himalayas to the vast corn-growing plains of the Punjab and the scarce and stunted bushy growth of the arid plains bordering the desert country. [...] Whilst the Dravidians occupied the plains of the Punjab people of another race called Mongolians who filtered through the passes in the north-east of India and gradually established themselves all along the outer ranges of the Himalayas had made homes for themselves in the hill tracts of the Punjab and Kashmir. [...] Out of the embers of the Mughal rule in the Punjab rose the Sikh power which in the first half of the nineteenth century culminated into the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab. [...] The contact with the European people the introduction and rapid progress of the 'Western system of education and the consquent cultural changes in the habits of the people have influenced the life. [...] The special objects of the University were to be " to afford encouragement to the enlightened qudy of Oriental languages and literatures the improvement and extension of the vernacular literature of the Punjab and its Dependencies and the diffusion of western knowledge through the medium of the vernaculars.
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Pages
254
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142322
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii G.C. Chatterji view
Introduction
i-vii G.C. Chatterji view
Chapter I. The Punjab Through the Ages
1-8 K.C. khanna view
Chapter II. A Brief History of the University of the Panjab
9-30 J.F. Bruce view
Chapter III. Scientific Teaching and Research
31-53 S.S. Bhatnagar view
Chapter IV. Economic and Industrial Development of the Punjab
54-78 L.C. Jain view
Chapter V. A Sketch of the Geology and Mineral Resources of the Punjab
79-i D.N. Wadia view
Chapter VI. Archeology in the Punjab
93-109 C.L. Fabri view
Chapter VII. Forestry and its Share in Rural Reconstruction
110-i R. Gorrie view
Chapter VIII. Punjab Canals
127-145 Bawa Singh view
Chapter VIX. Agriculture in the Punjab
146-171 M. Husain view
Chapter X. Rural Reconstruction in the Punjab
172-181 F.L. Brayne view
Chapter XI. Uhl River Hydro-Electric Scheme Operated by the Punjab Public Works Department Electricity Branch
182-193 G.C. Chatterji view
Chapter XII. The History and Present Position of Medicine in the Punjab
194-210 G.C. Chatterji view
Chapter XIII. The North Western Railway
211-225 G.C. Chatterji view
Backmatter
i-iv G.C. Chatterji view

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