Back مقاطعة البنجاب (الراج البريطاني) Arabic পাঞ্জাব প্রদেশ (ব্রিটিশ ভারত) Bengali/Bangla Província del Panjab Catalan Panĝabo (Brita Hindio) Esperanto ایالت پنجاب (هند بریتانیا) Persian पंजाब प्रांत (ब्रिटिश भारत) Hindi Provinsi Punjab (India Britania) ID Provincia del Punjab (India britannica) Italian पंजाब प्रांत (ब्रिटिश भारत) Marathi ਪੰਜਾਬ ਪ੍ਰਾਂਤ (ਬਰਤਾਨਵੀ ਭਾਰਤ) Punjabi
| Province of the Punjab | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Province of British India | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1849–1947 | |||||||||||||||||||
&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Badge_of_British_Punjab.svg) Coat of arms
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&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Punjab_1909.jpg) &sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Pope1880Panjab3.jpg) Maps of the Punjab Province | |||||||||||||||||||
| Anthem | |||||||||||||||||||
| "God Save the King" | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Demonym | Punjabi | ||||||||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||||||||
| • Type | British Colonial Government | ||||||||||||||||||
| • Motto | Crescat e Fluviis "Let it grow from the rivers" | ||||||||||||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||||||||||||
• 1849–1853 | Henry Montgomery Lawrence (first) | ||||||||||||||||||
• 1946–1947 | Evan Meredith Jenkins (last) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Premier | |||||||||||||||||||
• 1937–1942 | Sikandar Hayat Khan | ||||||||||||||||||
• 1942–1947 | Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana | ||||||||||||||||||
| Historical era | New Imperialism | ||||||||||||||||||
| 29 March 1849 | |||||||||||||||||||
• Transfer of Delhi from North-Western Provinces | 1858 | ||||||||||||||||||
• Formation of North-West Frontier Province | 9 November 1901 | ||||||||||||||||||
• Delhi district separated | 1911 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 14–15 August 1947 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Political subdivisions | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | India Pakistan | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Punjab Province was a province of British India. Most of the Punjab region was annexed by the British East India Company on 29 March 1849; it was one of the last areas of the Indian subcontinent to fall under British control.
Immediately following its annexation, the Punjab was annexed to the Bengal Presidency and administered separately by a board of administration.[1]: 54 After 1853, the board was replaced by a chief commissioner.[1]: 54 In 1858, the Punjab, along with the rest of British India, came under the rule of the British Crown. Following the Indian mutiny, Punjab became a lieutenant-governor's province under the Bengal Presidency.[1]: 54 After the Government of India Act of 1919, Punjab was turned into a governor's province.[1]: 55 It had a land area of 358,355 square kilometers.
The province comprised four natural geographic regions – Indo-Gangetic Plain West, Himalayan, Sub-Himalayan, and the North-West Dry Area – along with five administrative divisions – Delhi, Jullundur, Lahore, Multan, and Rawalpindi – and a number of princely states.[2] In 1947, the Partition of India led to the province's division into East Punjab and West Punjab, in the newly independent dominions of the Indian Union and Pakistan respectively.
During the colonial-period, the appellation "province" was used somewhat indiscriminately but usually referred to lieutenant-governor provinces (which Punjab was after 1859) but also to chief-commissioner provinces (which Punjab was from 1853–1859).[1]: 54–55
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- ^ a b c d e Michel, Aloys Arthur (1967). The Indus Rivers: A Study of the Effects of Partition. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780608140230.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 653.