Literature
Jalandhar and Punjabi Literature
Jalandhar is an ancient city. It has witnessed the foreign and native rulers. For the two centuries it was ruled by Kanishak Kings. With the advent of Muslim invaders, the importance of Jalandhar was increased. There is an historic city Kartarpur, which is 10 miles from Jalandhar. Sikh Gurus had developed this city. So many historic places in Jalandhar like Noormahal, Phillaur and Adampur have stood for the all round development of the district. The spread of education cannot be overlooked while assessing the progress of a particular society. It is right to say that the spread of education, language and literature stands behind the development of Jalandhar district. Only educated and conscious people can bring development. Jalandhar, with the passage of time, is being known as the media centre of Punjab . Here is a large industry which manufactures sports material and other products. The sports products are exported in larger quantity. The educational institutions like, Doaba College K. M. V; H. M. V; D. A.V College B. D Arya College, S. D. College and Lyalpur Khalsa College for women and boys have had created the educationist and laureates. The village Sansarpur adjoining Jalandhar has established itself as the cradle of Hockey team for Olympics. At present the number of schools both Govt. and private, colleges and other similar institutions have increased to unknown statistics. The agitation of freedom for India , played a great role for the creation of literary writings. A great deal of literature was written for this purpose. Hence it is very much clear that Jalandhar has contributed a lot for the development of Punjabi literature. Since, the Jalandhar city is the house of printing press, the writers flocked to Jalandhar from all over the Punjab and many of them settled here and wrote great books. The spoken language in Jalandhar is Punjabi being the mother tongue of Punjabi people. The Jalandhar falls in Doaba region, comprising the districts Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala. Doaba region is sided by the rivers Beas and Sutlej . The dilect of this region is called Doabi by the linguistics. People give stress on 'B' in place of V. But with the spread of communication means (Radio, T. V, Press etc.) the difference is eliminating very fast. The writers write Punjabi in Gurmukhi script.

The ancient writers belonging to Jalandhar can well be named as Jalandhar Nath, sufi poet-Vajid Khan, Bhai Kahan Singh Banga, poet Kanshi Ram, Sayad Mian Shah, Pt. Sharda Ram, athour of four books. Sh. Amarnath Munsaf was pioneer editor of Amrit Patrika. Amar Singh Doabia wrote Amar Narain. To spread the aims and objectives of Gadar Movement, Gadar papar was issued. The revolutionary poems, essays, and other writings were published to inspire the people against foreign rulers.The feelings for patriotism were created among the people of Punjabi. The famous writers and columnists of this paper were Harnam Singh , Jachak, Munsha Singh.The Babar Akali Movement during the first two decades of the 20th century created the litrerature of revolutionary nature. While fighting against the English rulers Babar Akali Doaba, a weekly magazine was the spokesman of the movement.