Early nineteenth-century Panjab : from Ganesh Das's Chār Bāgh-i-Panjāb / translated and edited by J.S. Grewal and Indu Banga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dāsa, Gaṇeśa, author.

Contributor:

Grewal, J. S., editor, translator.

Banga, Indu, editor, translator.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Chār bāgh-i-Panjāb. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Punjab (India)--Description and travel.

Punjab (India).

Punjab (India)--Social life and customs--19th century.

Manners and customs.

Travel.

India--Punjab.

Physical Description:

xv, 228 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

The Char Bagh-i-Panjab, written by Ganesh Das Wadera immediately after the annexation of the Lahore kingdom by the British in 1849, is a classic Persian text. Its long descriptive part is the only surviving account of the social, religious, and cultural life of the peoples of the Punjab, especially during the late-eighteenth and the early-nineteenth century. Ganesh Das writes about traditional learning, literature, folklore, urban centres, and women with a rare catholicity as an Indian, an orthodox Hindu, a Punjabi, and a Khatri. Himself a hereditary qanungo of Gujrat in the Sikh kingdom, he also provides valuable insights into the structure of revenue administration at lower rungs. This volume presents an authoritative English translation of this primary descriptive section of Char Bagh-i-Panjab, with a detailed Introduction, critical commentary, glossary, map, and a classified index. Indispensable for researchers, it will interest historians of medieval and modern India, especially those concerned with the pre-Independence Punjab region.

Notes:

First published by Guru Nanak Dev University 1975.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781138960275

1138960276

OCLC:

944379730

Publisher Number:

99967151502