The Women of Punjab
Women were always a part of Punjab’s heritage.
Yet their lives and contributions were seldom the focus of its story.
Here we look at the everyday roles, labour, and experiences of women in Punjab, across time.
While empires rose and fell, women carried Punjab forward
The Women of Punjab series details the labour of Punjabi women through time - the work that sustained households, preserved resources in scarcity, raised children, upheld faith; and carried communities through war, displacement, and loss.
This series looks at Punjab through a lens of continuity: how villages, culture, and identity survived invasion, partition, and migration. How the women of Punjabi society silently carried the weight of survival, allowing society to endure centuries of instability. It combines individual women, tropes, and cultural memory - creating an evolving archive of women’s roles in Punjabi society.