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Ledger account belonging to a trading group from Mandi Okara, Okara, Punjab written in a Landa script, ca.1944

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English: Ledger account belonging to a trading group from Mandi Okara, Okara, Punjab written in a Landa script, ca.1944. It is unknown which variety of the internally diverse family of Landa script was employed here. Perhaps the Landa variety displayed here was written in a shorthand form. Harbhajan Singh Bhatia bought the ledger account from Pakistan to today's India, after the partition of India. Kept in the collection of the Partition Museum.

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A ledger account of 1944, belonging to a trading group from Okara, Punjab, Pakistan; in Landa script

Okara, Punjab, Pakistan 📍🇵🇰

The following pictures are of a ledger account book, which belonged to a trading group named 'M/s. Kanshi Ram Dharam Pal', who used to trade in construction materials such as steel, lime, cement, etc. Most of you must be wondering about the script in which it is maintained!

It's the forgotten Landa script (Landa means without a tail in Punjabi), which was once popularly used to write languages like Punjabi, Saraiki and Sindhi from 10'th-11'th century to almost 1900's, in the Punjab and Sindh region (Here, Punjab also includes the areas of today's Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Pakistani Punjab). It was a mercantile script, that is, it was particularly used by the merchant communities who practiced trade in this region, such as Khatris, Aroras, Baniyas, Arhtiyas, Jains, etc. It had variations in its alphabets (Around 10) in different regions.

Many such old ledger accounts can be found even today, bearing the same Landa script. Today, there's hardly anyone who could understand this. Due to many variations in the script and decreasing interest among the people to know this script and many other reasons, it is now replaced by the scripts like Gurmukhi and Devanagari and is now one of the lost and forgotten scripts of the Indian Subcontinent.

This ledger account is now preserved at @partitionmuseum located in Kashmiri Gate, Delhi and it belongs to Sardar Harbhajan Singh Bhatia, who bought it back from Pakistan to India, after the partition of India.

Date circa 1944
date QS:P,+1944-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Author M/s. Kanshi Ram Dharam Pal (Mandi Okara)

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