Jalandhar Doab

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Jalandhar Doab is a fertile region of the Punjab between the Beas and Sutlej rivers, historically significant as a contested territory between the Sikh Empire and British India.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Bist Doab 1
Jalandhar Doab canonical 1
Sutlej River region 1

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf doab
geographical region
annexedBy British East India Company
annexedInYear 1846
borderedBy Majha region
Malwa region
cameUnderBritishControlAfter First Anglo-Sikh War
climate subtropical
containsCity Hoshiarpur
Jalandhar
Kapurthala
Phagwara
containsDistrict Hoshiarpur district
Jalandhar district
Kapurthala district
parts of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district
country India
ethnicGroup Punjabis
linked to: Punjabi people
hasCharacteristic fertile alluvial soil
hasHistoricalSignificance frontier between Sikh Empire and British territories
site of military and political contestation in 19th century
historicallyContestedBy British East India Company
British Raj
linked to: British India

Sikh Empire
historicallyPartOf Punjab region
linked to: Punjab

Sikh Empire
knownFor high agricultural productivity
intensive irrigation
language Punjabi
locatedBetween Beas River
Sutlej River
locatedIn Doaba region
linked to: Doaba

Punjab
majorCrops cotton
rice
sugarcane
wheat
nameEtymology derived from city of Jalandhar
doab means land between two rivers
partOf Indo-Gangetic Plain
religionMajority Hinduism
Sikhism
scriptUsed Gurmukhi
soilType alluvial
usedFor agriculture
wasAdministrativeDivisionUnder British India

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Treaty of Lahore (1846) cededTerritory Jalandhar Doab
Treaty of Amritsar (1809) appliesToTerritory Sutlej River region
linked to: Jalandhar Doab
Doaba (Punjab) hasSubregion Bist Doab
linked to: Jalandhar Doab