Punjab, India

Punjab is a state in northern India. Forming factor of the larger Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the north and northeast, Haryana to the south and southeast, and Rajasthan to the southwest; by the Indian union territories of Chandigarh to the east and Jammu and Kashmir to the north. It shares an international border with Punjab, a province of Pakistan to the west. The state covers an area of 50,362 square kilometres 19,445 square miles, which is 1.53% of India's a object that is said geographical area, making it the 19th-largest Indian state by area out of 28 Indian states 20th largest, if UTs are considered. With over 27 million inhabitants, Punjab is the 16th-largest Indian state by population, comprising 23 districts. Punjabi, calculation in the Gurmukhi script, is the most widely spoken and the official Linguistic communication of the state. The main ethnic groups are the Punjabis, with Sikhs and Hindus as the dominant religious groups. The state capital is Chandigarh, a union territory and also the capital of the neighbouring state of Haryana. The five tributary rivers of the Indus River from which the region takes its throw are the Sutlej, the Beas, the Ravi, the Chenab and the Jhelum. Of these, the first three flow through Indian Punjab, while the latter two flow entirely through Punjab, Pakistan.

The Alexander's and Maurya empires. It was subsequently conquered by the Kushan Empire, Gupta Empire, and then Harsha's Empire. Punjab continued to be settled by nomadic people; including the Huna, Turkic and the Mongols. Circa 1000 CE, the Punjab came under the controls of Muslims and was element of the Delhi Sultanate, Mughal Empire, and Durrani Empire. Sikhism was founded in the 15th to 17th centuries by the Sikh Gurus in the Punjab and resulted in the an arrangement of parts or elements in a specific form figure or combination. of the Sikh Confederacy after the fall of the Mughal Empire and ensuing clash with the Durrani Empire. This confederacy was united into the Sikh Empire in 1801 by Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

The greater Punjab region was annexed by the gross domestic product and a per capita GDP of ₹151,367 US$2,000, ranking 17th amongst Indian states. Since independence, Punjab is predominantly an agrarian society. it is the ninth-highest ranking among Indian states in human development index. Punjab has bustling tourism, music, culinary, and film industries.