*To all new followers & viewers*

Here is a *THREAD OF THREADS* dealing with all my posts on Panjabi history & other Panjabi related matters from an ethnic Muslim Panjabi focus/perspective.

It is arranged in chronological order for your convenience & to facilitate scrolling: The Pre Vedic eon, the Harappans, & the Indus Valley civilisation (centred in Panjab & Sindh) (pre 1500BCE):

Qaum e Panjabiyān (Muslim Panjabis) are an interesting community from Panjab that in the 1600’s, settled in Uttarakhand, &, much like the later Pashtun Rohillas, in Delhi & western UP.
They would later actively participate in the 1857 rebellion in Delhi:

*THREAD*

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https://twitter.com/punjabiwaseb/status/1503920511117524992

The Qaum e Panjabiyān were Panjabis from, among others, Bhera, Chiniot, & Sargodha mostly of the Khatri tribe/braderi who came to Delhi as traders (hence why they are also called ‘Panjabi saudagaran’). By their own family tradition they were converted in the 1200’s to…

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Did you know:

The Panjabi city of Pakpattan in which Baba Farid (d. 1266 CE) (رحمه الله) is buried was originally called ‘Ajodhan’, likely in reference to the frontier Panjabi Joiya clan. ‘Joiya’ itself being derived from its earlier form, ‘Yaudheya’.

(1/4) It’s pleasantly shocking how remarkably unchanged the tribe’s positioning has been for almost the last millennium:

(In the census of 1901, they are still shown to be a principal clan in the region that compromised modern Pakpattan, Sahiwal, & Okara districts)
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https://twitter.com/ArainGang/status/1472456192215552001

The verse you have used here is a later interpolation or corruption of the original verse, and is most definitely not the work of Waris Shah, the original verse is actually asking God to spare his city from Abdali & his marauding army!!… (continued)

https://twitter.com/pashz7/status/1449365087651774473

…the original verse is:

"Ahmed Shah azgeb thin aan pausi, Jandiala os thin rab bachasia ni"

‘Abdali will attack from some unknown place, but God will save my Jandiala (his birthplace) from him.’

Waris Shah is pretty contemptuous of Abdali, (continued)