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- ↑ Kenneth Jones says that Charles Rivaz was Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab in 1899 but this is incorrect. He succeeded William Mackworth Young in that office in 1902.
- ↑ Hindus had traditionally been dominant in government offices but competition for such jobs became tougher from the 1880s for a variety of reasons rooted both in policy and in demographic changes. The Aitchison Commission was significant in this development. [3]
Citations
- ↑ British law and caste identity manipulation in colonial India: the Punjab Alienation of Land Act., Guilhem Cassan, Paris School of Economics (PSE), Laboratoire d’Economie Appliqu´ee (LEA-INRA) and Centre de Sciences Humaines de Delhi (CSH), 12 January 2010
- ↑ Why Dera Sacha Sauda draws followers, Sanjeev Nayar, Rediff, 28 August 2017
- 1 2 3 Jones (1976), pp. 182–183
- ↑ Nair (2011), p. 13
- ↑ Jones (1976), pp. 247–248
- ↑ Jones (1976), p. 249
- ↑ Nair (2011), p. 71
- ↑ Nair (2011), p. 6
- ↑ Law changes bring Aravalli conservation to the fore, Hindustan Times, 22 December 2019.
Bibliography
- Jones, Kenneth W. (1976), Arya Dharm: Hindu Consciousness in 19th-century Punjab, University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-52002-920-0
- Nair, Neeti (2011), Changing Homelands, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-67406-115-6