This book provides an English translation of the descriptive parts of Char Bagh-i-Panjab. Written by Ganesh Das after the annexation of Lahore by the British, the text is the only surviving contemporary work with significant information on the social, religious, and cultural life of Punjab (present-day India and Pakistan) the early nineteenth century.

J. S. Grewal is Honorary Director of the Institute of Punjab Studies, Chandigarh, India. A former Professor and Vice Chancellor of Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, as well as Director, and later Chairman, of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, he has written extensively on historiography, medieval India, Punjabi literature and Punjab and Sikh history.

Indu Banga is Honorary Secretary of the Institute of Punjab Studies, Chandigarh, India. A former Professor of History at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, and now Professor Emeritus at the Panjab University, Chandigarh, she has published several books and articles on agrarian and urban issues, gender relations, historiography and socio-cultural change in medieval and modern India, especially Punjab.

Preface. Introduction Char-Bagh-i-Panjab Appendix. Glossary. Classified Index.