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Amritsar
Guru Ram Das dug the holy pool and the city grew around it; Amritsar holds Sikhism's golden shrine, the garden where the Raj lost its legitimacy, and some of India's best eating.
Sarovar
1577
The tank
Guru Ram Das founds the city.
1801
Ranjit Singh
The Sikh empire gilds the shrine.
1919
Jallianwala Bagh
A massacre turns the freedom movement.
1947
Partition
The border falls thirty kilometers away.