Punjab (British India)

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Punjab British commonwealth colony 1849 – 1947 Coat of arms Map of British Punjab 1909 Historical era New Imperialism  - Established 1849  - Partition of India 1947

Punjab was a province of British India, it was one of the last areas of the Indian subcontinent to fall under British rule. With the end of British rule in 1947 the province was split between India and Pakistan. It comprised the present day areas of:

• Punjab Province, Pakistan
• Punjab State, India
• Haryana State, India
• Himachal Pradesh State, India
• Delhi State, India (after the Revolt of 1857)
• Chandigarh, former part of Punjab
• Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan

[edit] Etymology

The word Punjab is named from the "five rivers" by which it is watered: the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej, all tributaries of the Indus.

[edit] Geography

Geographically the Punjab province of British India was a triangular tract of country of which the Indus and the Sutlej to their confluence formed the two sides, the base being the lower Himalaya hills between those two rivers; but the British province also included a large tract outside those boundaries. Along the northern border Himalayan ranges divide it from Kashmir and Tibet. On the west it is separated from the North-West Frontier Province by the Indus, until that river reaches the border of Dera Ghazi Khan District, which is divided from Baluchistan by the Sulaiman Range. To the south lie Sindh and Rajputana, while on the east the rivers Jumna and Tons separated it from the United Provinces.^[1]

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