This book presents valuable history of the 2500 years of ancient Jalandhar. Besides, it gives the hitherto unknown facts about various ancient towns and villages of Jalandhar district. It also has more than 90 coloured photographs of centuries old buildings and monuments, which may not survive for another decade unless they are properly and carefully protected. This book is also a treasure of more than 30 precious maps of the Punjab from the years 1000 to 2004. One can find details of each and every village of Jalandhar district in these maps. Besides, it is also a ready-reference of each and every village of the district, with each village’s area in hectares, its population (1991 and 2001 census) as well as each village’s location, nearest post office, nearest railway station, nearest main road, development block etc. of each village.