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Saturday, November 29, 2008

1883 Punjab Tourist Guide

In researching something totally unrelated, I stumbled on this fascinating read.

In 1883, John Murray published "Handbook of the Punjab, Western Rajputana, Kashmir, and Upper Sindh: with a map".

The book is a tourist guide to the north-western part of British India and has many references to Sikh history. It even includes a detailed vocabulary and dialogue section on translating key words and phrases from English to Punjabi and Sindhi.

Here's the pages on Amritsar:



You can read and download the entire book from Google Book Search.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Amritsar is a beatiful city in the Great State of the Punjab - the land of 5 Rivers.

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