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East Punjab was a state of Dominion of India and later Republic of India from 1947 until 1950. It consisted parts of the Punjab State of British India that remained in India following the partition of the state between the new dominions of Pakistan and India by the Radcliffe Commission in 1947.
The other two states were Nalagarh and Kalsia. PEPSU was earlier headed by the Premier, from 1952 the chief minister become the head of the government. On 1 November 1956, PEPSU was merged mostly into East Punjab (Punjab from 1950) following the States Reorganisation Act, 1956.
Eastern Punjab may refer to: Punjab, India, mostly used in contexts where Western Punjab refers to Punjab of Pakistan; East Punjab, a former province and state of India (1947–1966) Patiala and East Punjab States Union (1948–1956), a former state of India; East Punjab Circuit, a Hindi film distribution circuit in India
PEPSU state in East Punjab. On 1 November 1956, PEPSU was merged mostly into Punjab State following the States Reorganisation Act. [1]A part of the former state of PEPSU, including the present day Jind district and the Narnaul tehsil in north Haryana as well as the Loharu tehsil, Charkhi Dadri district and Mahendragarh district in southwest Haryana, presently lie within the state of Haryana ...
On 15 August 1947, Gopi Chand Bhargava elected the Chief Minister of East Punjab by Members of Interim Assembly. On the date of 1 November 1947, it was the first-time interim assembly sit. Kapur Singh was the elected Speaker that day and two days later on 3 November, Thakur Panchan Chand was the elected Deputy speaker.
East Region (Cameroon) East Region, Singapore; Est Region, Burkina Faso; Purvanchal (lit. ' eastern region '), a region of India; East Punjab (state), former state in northwestern India (1947–1966), the eastern part of the Punjab region Punjab, India, a state of India divided from the above, sometimes still referred to as East Punjab
The Sikhs now constituted a majority in the northwestern seven districts [25] of the thirteen districts [19] of East Punjab state at the time: Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Firozpur, Ludhiana, and Ambala, along with Patiala and East Punjab States Union, or PEPSU, which had been formed as an administrative unit on 5 May 1948 [26 ...
Punjab (Punjabi: puñjāba pronounced [pənˈdʒaːb] ⓘ) is a state in northwestern India.Forming part of the larger Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the 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 territories of Jammu and Kashmir to the north and ...