State persecution by Moghuls, conquests of Persian Nader Shah and Afghan Ahmed Shah Abdali, followed by a brief period of sovereignty under Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Then, British annexed Punjab, and partitioned it between the newly split India and Pakistan.
Land of Sikhs erupted into one of the greatest human migrations of human history - in summer 1947.
And today, Punjabis are eroding themselves with drug abuse, alcohol addiction, female infanticide, farmer suicides, low birth rates, international emigration and religious conversion.
