Punjab
From Halal Explorer
The Punjab is a populous and prosperous area of the South Asia|Indian subcontinent. The name is from Persian and means "five rivers", referring to five major tributaries of the Indus – the Jhelum and the Chenab and the Ravi and the Sutlej, and the Beas. The Indus itself runs along the western edge of the area, in places forming the border between the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Being well-watered and relatively flat and the Punjab has always been one of the more prosperous regions of the subcontinent. It was a province of the Mughal Empire and then the center of a Sikh Empire, and (after two Anglo-Sikh wars in the 1840s), part of British Raj|British India.
In 1947 British India was split into two new independent nations, India and Pakistan. Each got part of the Punjab and today each has a province named Punjab:
India
- Punjab (India) – a state of northern India
Pakistan
- Punjab (Pakistan) – a province of eastern Pakistan
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