eprintid: 12637
rev_number: 31
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1
dir: disk0/00/01/26/37
datestamp: 2011-10-31 13:32:16
lastmod: 2016-01-03 09:57:16
status_changed: 2012-08-15 09:02:15
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Roy, Anjali Gera
title: One Land, Many Nations
ispublished: pub
subjects: ddc-320
divisions: i-702000
keywords: Punjab , ‘five waters’ , Bannu , Sikh , Hindu , Muslim , canal colonies , partition
abstract: The Panjab Rivers. — "Panjab" is a Persian compound word, meaning "five waters," and strictly speaking the word denotes the country between the valley of the Jhelam and that of the Sutlej. The intermediate rivers from west to east are the Chenab, the Ravi, and the Bias. Their combined waters at last flow into the Panjnad or "five rivers" at the south-west corner of the Multan district, and the volume of water which 44 miles lower down the Panjnad carries into the Indus is equal to the discharge of the latter. The first Aryan settlers knew this part of India as the land of the seven rivers (sapta sindhavas), adding to the five mentioned above the Indus and the Sarasvati. The old Vedic name is more appropriate than Panjab if we substitute the Jamna for the Sarasvati or Sarusti, which is now a petty stream. (Douie 1916)
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 2011
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00012637
portal_cluster_id: p-hdpaper
portal_order: 63
ppn_swb: 1651068224
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-126376
language: eng
bibsort: ROYANJALIGONELANDMAN2011
full_text_status: public
series: Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics
volume: 63
issn: 1617-5069
citation:   Roy, Anjali Gera  (2011) One Land, Many Nations.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/12637/1/Heidelberg_Papers_63_Roy.pdf