PUNJABI SUBA MOVEMENT

PUNJABI SUBA MOVEMENT, a long drawn political agitation launched by the Sikhs demanding the creation of PunjabiSuba or Punjabi speaking state in the Punjab. At Independence it was commonly recognized that the Indian states then comprising the country did not have any rational or scientific basis. They were more the result of the exigencies of British conquest. To have some of these demographic imbalances corrected and inconvenient bulges expunged with a view to drawing up cleancut boundaries a commission was set up by Government of India in 1948.
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