Word: punjab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pakistan-backed terrorist is arrested in Punjab...
...Anyone surveying the road outside the American consulate in New Delhi in the 1980s would have espied a sea of turbans. The Sikhs were leaving, fleeing a plague of anti-Sikh terrorism in Punjab and the poisonous sentiment that had seeped into other parts of India as well. "Why not join us?" Sikhs who had made it safely to New York and Toronto were asking relatives back home. That question was certainly weighing on Satbir Kang, when at age 21 she first applied for a visa...
Through Oct. 31: "From India's Hills and Plains: Rajput Paintings from the Punjab and Rajasthan." Works commissioned for Rajput princes and their courts from the 17th through the 19th centuries. The show features lively vignettes of Hindu gods and goddessers and deptictions of courtly activities vividly painted in brilliant palettes...
...From India's Hills and Plains: Rajput Paintings from the Punjab and Rajasthan," through Oct. 31. Works commissioned for Rajput princes and their courts from the 17th through the 19th centuries. The show features lively vignettes of Hindu gods and goddesses and depictions of courtly activities vividly painted in brilliant palettes...
...capital district of Islamabad. As it is, support for Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif reflects the regional divisons that have undermined national stability and independence since 1947. Bhutto's votes came largely from her native province, Sind, where her family retains large landholdings, and from the rural areas of populous Punjab. Naqaz Sharif scored a virtual clean sweep in the largest cities -- Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi -- and industrial areas of Punjab...