Gujarati Asmita = Punjabiyat = Dravadian Identity = Bengal Nationalism !!! One of the same sub regional identities many states have in India.
I saw a lot of commentary that Kashmiriyat = Punjabiyat. Kashmir is a region where Kashmiri Pandits were massacred and driven out and on the contrary Punjabi Hindus have prospered and live peacefully without any communal flare up ever since the militancy ended in early 90s.
And Punjabiyat is not an exclusionary religious concept but a cultural annotation associated with people who reside in that region. Its necessary sane people emphasise this time & again.
Punjabi Culture = Punjabiyat ! Its very difficult for people residing outside Punjab to understand it, just like how difficult it is to understand Bengal from Delhi or even Tamil Nadu from Delhi. Its a cultural construct not a religious one.
Even a Hindu Bania of Punjab identifies as Punjabi Hindu. Punjabi Hindus have voted along with Jat Sikhs they dont see any differences among themselves culturally you will see it in the coming polls. Those divisions exists on Social media only that too only in a fringe !
The fringe must not be mainstreamed and good people must speak out so that plan to divide Punjab into Hindus & Sikhs fail at outset.
Gujarat has its own unique culture, lifestyle & food habbits and they should be proud of that. Bengal has same of its culture, lifestyle and food habbits. And same too with Punjab. India has diverse cultural connotations from north to east to west to south. Yet we r Indians first
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