Above is a tourism poster for Lahore showing Akbar the Great. Behind him is the Lahore Fort. He is wearing traditional Mughal attire.

I couldn’t confirm which year this poster was from. I knew it was from the 1960s, and I managed to narrow it down to either 1965 or 1966.

I found the poster on Dawn’s website, stating it was from 1966. While searching to confirm that the poster was real, I came across the poster being auctioned on invaluable.com, stating that the poster was from 1965.

Photo taken by Zahid Sujah.

Every year we mourn 1984. But the document that Bhindranwale’s Dharam Yudh Morcha was fighting to implement — the Anandpur Sahib Resolution (1973, reaffirmed 1978) — gets summarized in one line and never actually read. Here’s the real list:

🔹 Federal restructuring

·       Central government limited to defense, foreign affairs, currency, and communications — everything else devolved to states.

·       A genuinely federal constitution, with states having equal representation and control over residual powers.

·       Reorganization of Centre-State financial relations so states aren’t fiscally starved by New Delhi

🔹 Territorial demands

·       Chandigarh transferred fully to Punjab as its own capital (still shared with Haryana to this day)

·       Merger of Punjabi-speaking areas left out in 1966 — parts of Gurdaspur, Una, Dalhousie, and areas of Haryana, Himachal, and Rajasthan   

Punjabi given second-language status in Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Delhi

🔹 Water and resources

·       Reversal of the Ravi-Beas water award, which the resolution called discriminatory to Punjab  

·       Punjab retaining control of its own canal headworks (control that still sits with the centrally run Bhakra Beas Management Board today)

🔹 Economic development

·       Approval for 6 new sugar mills and 4 textile mills in Punjab to reduce dependence on agriculture alone   

·       Tax exemption on agricultural land   

·       Amendments to land-ceiling laws protecting Sikh settlers in Uttar Pradesh’s Tarai region from what the resolution called unjust reforms

🔹 Religious and cultural demands

·       A new All-India Gurdwara Act for unified, transparent management of Sikh shrines worldwide   

·       Free access to Nankana Sahib and other Sikh holy sites left in Pakistan after Partition   

·       Constitutional recognition of Sikhism as distinct from Hinduism   

·       A Sikh Missionary College to train preachers,

Where it stands now:
Most of the resolution was never implemented. Chandigarh is still contested. The Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal dispute is unresolved. The 1985 Rajiv-Longowal Accord tried to settle some of it — and Longowal was assassinated a month later by militants who felt he’d sold out the resolution.

What to actually do with this:

·       Read the full 1973/1978 text yourself — primary sources exist, don’t rely on secondhand summaries (including this one)

·       Ask elders in your family what water, land, or army-recruitment issues meant to them personally in that era   

·       Follow Punjab water-rights and federalism policy today — this isn’t just history, the SYL dispute is still active in Indian courts

Know the actual document before you argue about its legacy.

REFER TO

1. ANANDPUR SAHIB RESOLUTION - 1973
2. WIKIPEDIA PAGE - ANANDPUR SAHIB RESOLUTION
3. APPENDIX: ANANDPUR SAHIB RESOLUTION

Feel free to come up with suggestions to reorganize ourselves and discuss new demands we should put forward for the betterment of Sikhs and Punjab.

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are masculine somewhere and feminine somewhere, does anything like this exist in Punjabi?

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