Punjab, IndiaPunjab ( pun-JAHB; Panjabi: pañjāba, pronounced [pəɲˈd͡ʒaːb] ) is a state in northwestern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the Indian states and union territories of Himachal Pradesh to the north and northeast, Haryana to the south and southeast, Rajasthan to the southwest, Jammu and Kashmir to the north.
Government Medical College, AmritsarGovernment Medical College, Amritsar, formerly known as Glancy Medical College, is a medical college in Punjab, India. It was established in 1864 in Lahore, British India. It was moved to Amritsar, India in 1920. The hospital caters to the poorest of poor in the region and nearly fifty per cent of about 1000 surgeries done every month are free of cost under Ayushman Sehat Bima Yojana.Punjab Agricultural UniversityPunjab Agricultural University (PAU) is a public funded agricultural university located in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. It is a central agricultural university in India established under Harayana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act 1970 enacted by Parliament in the Twenty first Year of the Republic of India.
Khalsa College, AmritsarKhalsa College (Punjabi: ਖ਼ਾਲਸਾ ਕਾਲਜ khālsā kālaj) is a historic educational institution in the northern Indian city of Amritsar in the state of Punjab, India. Founded in 1892, the sprawling 300-acre (1.2 km2) campus is located about eight kilometers from the city-center on the Amritsar-Lahore highway (part of the Grand Trunk Road), adjoining Guru Nanak Dev University campus, to which Khalsa College is academically affiliated.
Gottlieb Wilhelm LeitnerGottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (14 October 1840 – 22 March 1899), also known as G.W. Leitner, was a Hungarian-born British orientalist and the first principal of Government College, Lahore. Early life and educationGottlieb Wilhelm Leitner was born in Pest, Hungary, on 14 October 1840 to a Jewish family. His mother was Marie Henriette Herzberg. His father, Leopold Saphir, died when Gottlieb was young and his mother then married Johann Moritz Leitner.Punjabi UniversityPunjabi University is a collegiate state public university located in Patiala, Punjab, India. It was established on 30 April 1962 and is only the second university in the world to be named after a language, after Hebrew University of Israel.
Dera (organisation)A dera is a type of socio-religious organisation in northern India. Jacob Copeman defines the deras as "monasteries or the extended residential sites of religious leaders; frequently just glossed as sect". Several deras started out as non-orthodox Sikh sects, and many of them are now centres of distinct non-Sikh religious movements.
PatialaPatiala (Punjabi pronunciation: [pʌʈeɑ̈ːɭɑ]) is a city in southeastern Punjab, northwestern India. It is the fourth largest city in the state and is the administrative capital of Patiala district. Patiala is located around the Qila Mubarak (the 'Blessed Castle') constructed by a chieftain Ala Singh, who founded the royal dynasty of Patiala State in 1763, and after whom the city is named.
LudhianaMetropolis in Punjab, IndiaMetropolis in Punjab, IndiaLudhiana (Panjabi: Ludhiāṇā, pronounced) is the most populous city in the Indian state of Punjab. The city has an estimated population of 1,618,879 as of the 2011 census and distributed over 310 km (120 sq mi), making Ludhiana the most densely populated urban centre in the state. It is a major industrial center of Northern India, referred to as "India's Manchester" by the BBC.
AyurvedaPseudoscientific alternative medicine originating from IndiaDhanvantari, an avatar of Vishnu, is the Hindu god associated with Ayurveda.Ayurveda ( ; IAST: āyurveda) is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent. It is heavily practised throughout India and Nepal, where as much as 80% of the population report using Ayurveda.
ArabicCentral Semitic languageArabic is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of Literary Arabic, known as Modern Standard Arabic, which is derived from Classical Arabic.
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