Eastern Punjab (other)
Eastern Punjab may refer to: * Punjab, India, mostly used in contexts where Western Punjab refers to Punjab of Pakistan * East Punjab, a former province of the dominion of India See also * Eastern Punjabi (other) Eastern Punjabi may refer to: *the standard form of the Punjabi language as used in India (rather than Pakistan) *the eastern Punjabi dialects spoken in both India and Pakistan See also * Eastern Punjab (other) * Western Punjabi (disambi ... * Western Punjab (other) {{geodis ...
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Punjab, India
Punjab (; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in northern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the States and union territories of India, Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the north and northeast, Haryana to the south and southeast, and Rajasthan to the southwest; by the Indian union territory, union territories of Chandigarh to the east and Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), Jammu and Kashmir to the north. It shares an international border with Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab, a Pakistani province, province of Pakistan to the west. The state covers an area of 50,362 square kilometres (19,445 square miles), which is 1.53% of India's total geographical area, making it List of states and union territories of India by area, the 19th-largest Indian state by area out of 28 Indian states (20th largest, if UTs are considered). With over 27 million inhabitants, Punjab is List of states and union territories of ...
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East Punjab
East Punjab (known simply as Punjab from 1950) was a province and later a state of India from 1947 until 1966, consisting of the parts of the Punjab Province of British India that went to India following the partition of the province between India and Pakistan by the Radcliffe Commission in 1947. The mostly Muslim western parts of the old Punjab became Pakistan's West Punjab, later renamed as Punjab Province, while the mostly Hindu and Sikh eastern parts went to India. History Partition of India With the partition of the British Indian Empire, the Punjab province was to be divided in two as per the Indian Independence Act passed by the parliament of the United Kingdom. The province as constituted under the Government of India Act 1935 ceased to exist and two new provinces were to be constituted, to be known respectively as West Punjab & East Punjab. The princely states of the Punjab region (which had not been British possessions, so could not be partitioned by the British ...
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Eastern Punjabi (other)
Eastern Punjabi may refer to: *the standard form of the Punjabi language as used in India (rather than Pakistan) *the eastern Punjabi dialects spoken in both India and Pakistan See also * Eastern Punjab (other) * Western Punjabi (other) * Indian Punjabi (other) * Punjabi (other) Punjabi, or Panjabi, most often refers to: * Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan * Punjabi language * Punjabi people * Punjabi dialects and languages Punjabi may also refer to: * Punjabi (horse), a British Th ...