Question

how was Punjab divided

Answer 1

After the partition of India in 1947, the Punjab province of British India was divided between India and Pakistan. The Indian Punjab was divided on the basis of language in 1966. It was divided into 3 parts.

Answer 2

The state punjab is divided into into five administrative divisions and twenty-two districts according to the Radcliffe plan.

Explanation:

• Punjab is the state of northern India which is present in the border of the Indian union territory.
• This state covers the area of 50,362 square kilometres which is the 20th largest state in india.
• The districts of Amritsar, Gurdaspur, and Lahore were all disputed in the area of Bari Doab. All these districts seemed to have Muslim Majority.
• Just before the formal hearings happened, the Punjab was divided into East Punjab and West Punjab. The categorisation of these parts was solely done based on the amount of Muslims living in them.
• The more Muslim parts went into Pakistan and the more Hindu parts stayed in India.
• But the Hindus and Muslim minorities living in Muslim and Hindu Majority places respectively, found it tough to adjust which resulted in a lot of bloodshed and riots between Hindus and Muslims.
• The bloodshed rose so much that no Muslim was able to survive in the East Punjab and no Hindu survived in the West Punjab.

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