A multi-disciplinary volume with an exceptionally wide sweep, has contributions covering polity, economy and society in the Mughal Punjab, state-formation, economy, society and literature under Sikh rule, religion and art in the hills, pahari painting; political, economic and socio-cultural developments, urban society and politics, communitarian, secular and national consciousness, agrarian and urban economy, demographic and social change, Punjabi literature and gender relations during colonial rule; and political economy, agricultural growth, Punjabi speaking state movement in post independence period.