why is Punjab presented with the name as to " " THE PUNJAB" "?
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Punjab is a Persian word which mean five rivers. Punj= five and aab= water/ river.\nThe plains between the Indus and Ganges river are called Punjab as they were irrigated naturally by the fiver rivers: Ravi, Chenab, Bias, Sutlej, Jhelum, and Sindh has seen one of the oldest civilizations in the world, The Indus valley civilization along the banks of river Indus (sindh) in present day Pakistan you can still see its ruins which were first discovered in 1922 by a team of British archeologists.\nIn 1947 the British divided Punjab between Pakistan and India. The Eastern (Indian Punjab) became the land of Sikhs (the religion of Guru Nanak who was born at Nankana (Pakistan) and preached against idol worship of Hindus. Sikhs are a martial race and they made Amritsar (India) as their holy city. Jats are the people (Punjabi) who are known tradititonally to have larger built, taller in height and slightly lower in I. Q. (its a tradition to call them as having lower I.Q, there is no proof of any Punjabi Sikh or Muslim to have I.Q lower than any other ethnic people of Pakistan and India. Large number of Pujabis have also settled in Canada, UK, USA and elsewhere even before 1947. There is tendency among Hindus to make fun of Sikhs while referring to their homeland, the Indian Punjab. There is no truth in these beliefs however. Punjabi is a peace loving people and have been the place for mystiques, hospitality and bravery. During the two world wars, British recruited maximum number of troops from Punjab, Jhelum and Photohar plataeu areas in particular (both in Pakistan).
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I think you are confused. Virginia is a state, one of the few that call themselves commonwealths. If you want to think of the United States as a "commonwealth" of sorts, it is a part of a commonwealth, but not THE Commonwealth, which is used primarily to mean the former British empire nations.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth
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The first Article of the Constitution of India, which deals with the official name, states that "India, that is Bharat, shall be a union of states." Thus, not only in usage but officially India and Bharat are both accorded primary status. The name India is derived from the river Indus.\n\nThe original name of the river came from the fact that in the north-west of the subcontinent, there are seven main tributaries of the one river. The local inhabitants therefore called it Sapta-Sindhu, meaning the seven rivers. As the seven tributaries are part of the one river, the entire river system came to be known in time as Sindhu. In general, Sindhu also means any river or water body in Sanskrit.\n\nPersian explorers visited the area even in ancient times, and the Iranian 'h' is cognate with Sanskrit 's'. Thus Sindhu became Hindu. Similarly, Sanskrit Asura (a spirit, later an evil spirit) is cognate with Ahura, the Supreme God of the early Iranian people.\n\nThe name of the river entered Greek from Persian, with the loss of the initial 'h', to become Ίνδός Indos, from which the Greeks derived their name for the region, Ίνδια India. The Latin form of Indos is Indus, the name by which the river system is still known in the West. Its name was given to the entire subcontinent by the Romans, who adapted it to the current India.\n\nThe word India is the form used by Europeans over the ages.\n\nSindhu is also the Sanskrit term for Ocean and for any large water body. It would specifically mean the modern river Indus, if ancient Indic originated there. It could just mean "water dwellers" as well.\n\nInterestingly, the Vedas did not assign any particular name for India, although some scholars assert that references to Indu in the Rig Veda relate to India's present name. Many traditional literary/cultural works from around the globe lack definite terminology for their home culture as a political unit; China, Greece, and many other civilizations lacked fixed names for themselves in traditional literature of their early periods.\n\nIn the Matsya Purana 126, the length of India (Bharatavarsa) is 9,000 puranic yojanas, which is a good estimation.[1]\n\nListed by, among others, Colonel James Todd in his Annals of Rajputana, he describes the ancient India under control of tribes claiming descent from the Moon, or "Indu", and their influence in Trans-Indian regions where they referred to the land as Industhan. This explanation might serve better to explain the term Hindu. Having said that, ancient Greeks do mention the Indic tribes or related tribes (could be of Iranian origin or joint Indo-Iranian origin) inhabiting what is now Ukraine as Sindoi or Sindkoi.\n\nThe name India was known in Anglo-Saxon, and was used in King Alfred's translation of Orosius. In Middle English, the name was, under French influence, replaced by Ynde or Inde, which entered early modern English as Indie. The use of the name India dates from the 17th century onwards, and may be due to the influence of Latin, or Spanish or Portuguese. [2]\n\nBhārata\n Some people regard Emperor Bharata to be the first and only emperor to rule all of India. Shown here is the approximate extent of his reign, Bharatvarsha,Bhārata, sometimes Bhāratavarsha (Bhārat or Bhāratvarsha in Hindi) is the name in Sanskrit and many languages of India for northern India. The Hindi form is also an official name of the Republic of India, and possibly the earliest name given to the nation. (Article 1 of the Constitution of India - 'India that is Bharat shall be a Union of States.'). In Sanskrit, it is pronounced as [bʱaːrət̪ə] while in Hindi as [bʱaːrət̪\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_India
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India comes from the word Sindhu( a name for the river Indus)>>converted to Indus river by the British and then the place came to be known as India.\n\nWhy the Britishers started calling it this way was because they couldnt pronounce it in any other way.India sounds anglisized and they wanted such a name for their colony.\n\nSindhu came to be known as Hindu and the place was called Hindustan by Moghuls.This was the name convinient for the muslim invaders.\n\nHowever,to put "the meaning of India" in one word, that word is yajna - sacrifice. The true meaning of sacrifice is the renunciation of the ego to the higher, universal Self. And that universal Self, which is to be found in our own deepest nature, is being, consciousness and joy. In total sacrifice lies total freedom. Yajna means giving up greed, taking from the earth only enough to meet our basic needs and returning as sacrifice what earth and nature so freely give. This eternal wisdom of India is so much needed in our time when materialism is dominating our culture.
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Nothing by those specific names, but since these locations are in the Punjabi region of India, I also looked up Punjabi with Ontario and came across the http://www.punjabipost.ca website, based in the Toronto area.  Perhaps someone there could be of some assistance.  I don't have the correct fonts downloaded (or the language skills) to read further.  Good luck.
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The Sikh religious thought originated in the Punjab, the land of five rivers, in north western India. On the present day map of India one can see East and West Punjab but in the days of Sikh origin, there were no divisions and there was only one Punjab. Sikhism could be described as a conclusion of thought processes and experiences in the life of one person. This event was the life of Guru Nanak. Guru Nanak, the first of the Sikh Gurus, was born in Talwandi in 1469. The village is now known as Nankana Sahib and is situated about fifty miles west of Lahore, the capital city of the Punjab. It was a period of comparative peace and security under the reign of Sultan Bahlol Lodhi (1451-89) and the formative years of Guru Nanak coincided with the period of Lodhi ascendancy under Bahlol and his son Sikandar. It seems that Nanak was born into a favoured period of peace, law and order and economic prosperity. He grew up in his father's village. At sometime in his early manhood he moved to Sultanpur where he worked in the employment of Daulat Khan Lodhi, Governor of Punjab. From Sultanpur he began a period of travels to places such as Mount Sumeru, Mecca, Madina, Baghdad and Bokhara. \n\nIn India he visited Panipat (Sheikh Sharaf), Delhi (Sultan Ibrahim Lodhi), Pak Pattan (Sheikh Farid Ibrahim), Saidpur (Babur) and Pir Bahauddin of Multan besides other places in Ceylon, Kashmir and the south of India. On his journeys he was usually accompanied by his close companions variously named as Mardana, Saido, Gheho, Hasu Lohar and Sihan Chhimba. \n\nMany authors have contended that Guru Nanak was influenced by the sanyasis and Hindu religious thought. But one look at the life of Guru Nanak makes it obvious that he lived amongst Muslims, was employed by a Muslim, visited and prayed at Muslim shrines sometimes spending as long as forty days in contemplation (culminating in his visit to Mecca) and that his religious thoughts were deeply influenced by the Islamic teachings. A reading of the Janam Sakhis also makes it clear that Guru Nanak spent more time with the Pirs and Sufis of his time and his teachings and practices were nearer to the Islamic faith. This subject has been dealt in detail by the Promised Messiah, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, in his book Sat Bachan. \n\nThe word GURU needs some explanation. It has two components, GU meaning one who dispels ignorance and darkness, and RU meaning one who brings enlightenment. When one reads the Janam Sakhis of Guru Nanak, it is possible to argue that Guru Nanak was a reformer speaking and acting against the caste system and trying to improve the status of women. Equally one can say that he was a religious synthesizer attempting a blend of Hinduism and Islam in his own cult or that he was a defender of pure religion against superstition and innovations. A more satisfactory evaluation of Guru Nanak is probably to regard him as a mystic and a Sufi who had realised the ultimate Unity in existence, who always spoke of 'The One without a second'. \n\nWhether he wanted people to follow him is uncertain and unlikely. It was the truth of his message not a community of followers which he seemed most eager to establish and yet he became the need of a community which emerged as an independent religion with its own rituals and distinctive characteristics. \n\nSoon after Babur's invasion of Northern India, around in 1521, Guru Nanak decided to end his life of a wandering teacher and settled down in Kartarpur. He discarded his dress of the Sufis and dressed in the manner of ordinary people and started teaching the community that grew around him. He rejected the Vedic teachings of magical spells, worship of ancestors, astrology, auspicious days and the rituals of Brahmin priests. His teaching was pure and simple, meditation and worship of one God without an Equal, a personal God, the omnipotent Creator of the universe, a being that was beyond time and human comprehension and yet was causing by His gr
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I could find the meaning of sridhar , but your name is just a slight variant of it .\n\nIt means beholder of capital.\n\nItalian Gurl you are so cute , you came up with that definition.
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My guess is that this Sikh branch is regarded a heretical by the main group.  They probably lobbied to keep it it from being recognized.
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Pakistan have forur provinces.Punjab,Sindh,Sarhad(NWFP) and Balochistan.\nState of Free Kashmir is a autonomuos.\nFata area is tribal land, adminstrated by fedral government.
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in addition to the political issues of the period and the impulse of approaching Germany and Hitler, which was the main reason for such a change of name at the order of Reza Shah, some people believed that the name of Persia just refers to part of the country from the Iranian point of view; while the name has been associated with our homeland for the foreigners in the past 2600 years. Thus the name of Persia should rather be used in dialogues conducted in European languages and not in discussions with Iranians. That's why the impression created by the name on the foreigners' minds is of significance, instead of its effect on our own minds. \n\nThere should be no prejudice about using the name of "Iran" by foreigners on the grounds that we ourselves call our homeland by such a name. In fact, several countries around the world are being called by their indigenous names. \n\n"Iran" is an honorable name to Iranian and Persian-speakers, while in the world culture "Persia" represents the ancient culture of the land to non-Iranians. The change of our country's name from Persia to Iran has separated it from its historical and cultural background in the minds of the world people. The number of individuals in the West to whom "Iran" and "Persia" have the same meaning is limited. Unlike the belief of Iranian statesmen in the 30s, today not the connection between "Iran" and the "Aryan Race" is unknown to anyone, but due to the great similarity in the name and European pronunciation of the names of "Iran" and "Iraq", a great number of Westerners, specially the young generation mix up Iran with the newly-founded land of Iraq located to the west of Iran. \n\nThe close analogy of the two names in the West has obviously been associated with the perception of their having similar identities. Even those differentiating Iran from Iraq, consider Iran as a land bordering the Persian Gulf with oil reserves and an identity almost similar to Arabs having no clear link to the ancient "Persia". \n\nA great part of the world countries annual budget is allocated to promotion of their feature on the international scene. The postal stamps recently distributed by the Swiss government across the world might be the best example. Though the country is officially called Switzerland, the stamps bear the name of "Helvetia" as a matter of pride. The country known today as Switzerland was called by the Latin name of Helvetia several centuries ago, which is not used anymore. \n\nAbout 70 years have passed since the name of our homeland changed to Iran in the international arena. Nonetheless, in many occasions, specially on matters related to Iran's history, culture and art, both Iranian and non-Iranian researchers use the name of "Persia" and the adjective of "Persian" instead of "Iran" and "Iranian" respectively, given that the latter words are not associated with any particular concept from historical and cultural points of view. \n\nThe name of "Persia" for "Iran" and such combinations as "Persian Carpet", "Persian Gulf", "Persian Miniature", "Persian Garden", "Persian Cat", etc. have been recorded in the world major encyclopedias. \n\nIn 1935, the Iranian government called on other countries to use Iran and Iranian instead of Persia and Persian respectively in their official correspondence. The two words reflecting the country's entire historical and cultural background overseas gradually disappeared from the Western languages collection of commonly used words, while the adjective of "Persian" is still used to refer to the language spoken in the country. \n\nHowever, following migration of millions of Iranians to Europe, Australia and America in recent years and given the carelessness and ignorance of some Iranian exp
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King, Emperor, Shah, Sultan, and Tsar are all names of the rulers of different areas of the world. It has to do with the language but not the job.
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Males of the Sikh faith in India are   called Sardar-ji, (similar to effendi in Turkish). Historically, Sardar was long used for important political, tribal, military and religious officiers including the families of the Sikh principalities.
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i salaute biharies for sacrifies they made in 1971 for sake of pakistan.But i am telling u a harsh fact about pakistani attitude toward biharies\n   Punjab accepted large number of muslims from east pakistan because they were punjabies.Pakistan had to accept 3 million afghans because their kinsmen pathans were present in Pakistan.indian muhajirs in sindh have conflict with local pathans and sindhis because they are not related to locals.same is the case with biharis,no province is ready to accept them.As for as governament is concerned it had taken few small steps in the past which were failures.\n i hope biharies get right place for living in future
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Truth:\n\nThe term "Palestine" is believed to be derived from the Philistines, an Aegean people who, in the 12th Century B.C.E., settled along the Mediterranean coastal plain of what are now Israel and the Gaza Strip. In the second century C.E., after crushing the last Jewish revolt, the Romans first applied the name Palaestina to Judea (the southern portion of what is now called the West Bank) in an attempt to minimize Jewish identification with the land of Israel. The Arabic word "Filastin" is derived from this Latin name.3\n\nThe Hebrews entered the Land of Israel about 1300 B.C.E., living under a tribal confederation until being united under the first monarch, King Saul. The second king, David, established Jerusalem as the capital around 1000 B.C.E. David's son, Solomon built the Temple soon thereafter and consolidated the military, administrative and religious functions of the kingdom. The nation was divided under Solomon's son, with the northern kingdom (Israel) lasting until 722 B.C.E., when the Assyrians destroyed it, and the southern kingdom (Judah) surviving until the Babylonian conquest in 586 B.C.E. The Jewish people enjoyed brief periods of sovereignty afterward before most Jews were finally driven from their homeland in 135 C.E. \n\nJewish independence in the Land of Israel lasted for more than 400 years. This is much longer than Americans have enjoyed independence in what has become known as the United States.4 In fact, if not for foreign conquerors, Israel would be 3,000 years old today.\n\nPalestine was never an exclusively Arab country, although Arabic gradually became the language of most the population after the Muslim invasions of the seventh century. No independent Arab or Palestinian state ever existed in Palestine. When the distinguished Arab-American historian, Princeton University Prof. Philip Hitti, testified against partition before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946, he said: "There is no such thing as 'Palestine' in history, absolutely not."5\n\nPrior to partition, Palestinian Arabs did not view themselves as having a separate identity. When the First Congress of Muslim-Christian Associations met in Jerusalem in February 1919 to choose Palestinian representatives for the Paris Peace Conference, the following resolution was adopted:\n\nWe consider Palestine as part of Arab Syria, as it has never been separated from it at any time. We are connected with it by national, religious, linguistic, natural, economic and geographical bonds.6\n\nIn 1937, a local Arab leader, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, told the Peel Commission, which ultimately suggested the partition of Palestine: "There is no such country [as Palestine]! 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria."7\n\nThe representative of the Arab Higher Committee to the United Nations submitted a statement to the General Assembly in May 1947 that said "Palestine was part of the Province of Syria" and that, "politically, the Arabs of Palestine were not independent in the sense of forming a separate political entity." A few years later, Ahmed Shuqeiri, later the chairman of the PLO, told the Security Council: "It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria."8\n\nPalestinian Arab nationalism is largely a post-World War I phenomenon that did not become a significant political movement until after the 1967 Six-Day War and Israel's capture of the West Bank
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because is did cease to exist when the UK led the movement to make it into Israel.  Before that, there was a Palestine.  saying it never existed and erasing it from the maps does not mean it never existed
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It is a pejorative term that many find insulting.\n\nWhy don't you simply say Pakistani?
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I thought Hinduism was the dominant religion there... if you are talking about the sport... back in the day India was a British colony... cricket is a British sport... makes sense to me.