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  Punjab. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The numerous Punjab hill states were merged into the union territory of Himachal Pradesh (now a state), other princely states were formed into the Patiala and East Punjab States Union, and the remaining area became the Indian state of East Punjab.
In 1956, however, the state of East Punjab and the union territory of Patiala and East Punjab States Union were merged to form the state of Punjab.
Punjab is governed by a chief minister and cabinet responsible to a bicameral legislature with one elected house and by a governor appointed by the president of India.
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 About Patiala
Patiala district is one of the famous princely states of erstwhile Punjab.
It is surrounded by the districts of Fatehgarh Sahib and Rupnagar and the Union Territory of Chandigarh in the north, Sangrur district in the west, Ambala and Kurukshetra districts of neighbouring state of Haryana in the east and Kaithal district of Haryana in the south.
Patiala district falls in the Puadh region and standard dialect spoken in the district is known as Puadhi.
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 Patiala - Jatland Wiki
The early history of the founders of Patiala state is more myth and mystery than reality, the rulers of the erstwhile states of Patiala, Nabha and Jind trace their ancestry to Jat sardar Chota Phul.
It is at this stage that the rulers of Patiala began to acquire ensigns of royalty.
After forty years of ceaseless struggle with the Mughals, Afghans and Marathas the borders of the Patiala state witnessed the blazing trails of Ranjit Singh in the north and of the British in the east.
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 Punjab: Definition and Much More from Answers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Punjab (India) borders Punjab (Pakistan) to the west, Jammu and Kashmir to the north, Himachal Pradesh to the northeast, Haryana to the south and southeast, Chandigarh to the southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest.
Punjab has the best infrastructure in all of India and as result it is becoming enormously attractive to foreign companies looking for bases and manufacturing zones for their Indian operations.
PEPSU consisted of the princely states of Patiala, Nabha, Jind, Kapurthala, Malerkotla, Faridkot and Kalsia.Himachal Pradesh was created as a union territory from several princely states and Kangra District.
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 Punjab - Jatland Wiki
Punjab (India) historically forms a part of the larger Punjab region, which also includes the province of Punjab (Pakistan), the Indian states of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh and Delhi and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
PEPSU consisted of the princely states of Patiala, Nabha, Jind, Kapurthala, Malerkotla, Faridkot and Kalsia.
Phool's grandson, Sardar Gajpal Singh, was the founder of this state.
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 Punjab
Punjab is a state in northwest India, part of a larger Punjab region.
Neighbouring regions are Punjab, Pakistan to the west, Jammu and Kashmir to the north, Himachal Pradesh to the northeast, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest.
The Indian state of Punjab was created in 1947, when the Partition of India and Pakistan split the former Raj province of Punjab between the two new countries.
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 AllRefer.com - Patiala and East Punjab States Union, India (Indian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Patiala and East Punjab States Union, Indian Political Geography
Patiala and East Punjab States Union[putEA´lu, punjAb´] Pronunciation Key, former union of states, 10,099 sq mi (26,156 sq km), NW India.
It was merged with Punjab state in 1956.
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 Patiala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patiala district is one of the famous princely cities of erstwhile Punjab.
It is the administrative headquarters of Patiala District, and was the capital of the premier princely state in the former Punjab Province of British India.
The early history of the founders of Patiala state is more myth and mystery than reality, the rulers of the erstwhile states of Patiala, Nabha and Jind trace their ancestry to one Jat Chota Phul.
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 Patiala - SikhiWiki, free Sikh encyclopedia.
PATIALA (30°20'N, 76° 26'E), a district town of the Punjab, was formerly the capital of a princely Sikh state until it lapsed in 1948.
It was later transferred to the Dharam Arth Board of the Patiala and East Punjab States Union and eventually to the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee.
Patiala even among the Indian princely states was a leading centre of sports in the country.
www.sikhiwiki.org /index.php?title=Patiala   (2434 words)

  
 Patiala Heritage >> History
The land of Patiala and its residents feel a sense of honour to be a part of this old-young ambience.
Situated in the well-demarcated Malwa region of the state of Punjab, Patiala became and continues to be the heart-throb of the Malwa belt.
In 1956, with the merger of PEPSU and Punjab, Patiala ceased to be a capital city.
www.patialaheritage.in /in/history.html   (947 words)

  
 tribuneindia... Punjab
PATIALA: The Patiala sarpech (literally meaning head fastner) was one of the most elaborate of its kinds and a prized jewel of Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala who wore it on special occasions.
Mr Birdevinder Singh states that it is intriguing that the sarpech had been auctioned in London after being consigned in Geneva as its rightful place was the medal gallery of the Archives Department at Patiala.
All state government and voluntary organisations will have to work tirelessly for the rehabilitation of the people, she said adding 300 truckloads of relief material — rice,wheat, chivra, clothes, gur, blankets, utensils, chappals, tarpaulins, polythene sheets — moved to Orissa from Punjab had since reached their destination and was being distributed to the needy.
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 Gian Singh Rarewala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
He also served as a Revenue Commissioner and Revenue Minister of the state and was Prime Minister of Patiala during the most crucial period —1946-47 — and was both Prime Minister and Chief Minster of Pepsu (Patiala and East Punjab States Union) et al.
During his tenure as Deputy Commissioner, Patiala, and President of the Singh Sabha, in 1944, he invited Maharaja Yadavindra Singh to the Singh Sabha and requested him to adopt Punjabi as the official language of the state.
After the merger of Pepsu with Punjab, the man who had resisted various inducements to join the Congress, became its member in 1956.
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2.20.2 By the States Re-Organisation Act, 1956, a New State known as the State of Punjab was formed by integration of the existing States of Punjab and Patiala and East Punjab States Union.
Thus, the Divisional and Sessions Judges in Punjab fulfilled the functions of the District and Sessions Judges in the regulation provinces.
2.20.50        Under the Punjab Courts Act, 1918, the Court of the District Judge shall be deemed to be the District Court or Principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction in respect of the original civil suits without limit as regards the value.
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 punjab - Ask.com Web Search
Punjab (Punjabi: ਪੰਜਾਬ) is a state in northwest India and forms a part of the larger Punjab region, which also includes the Punjab province of Pakistan and the Indian states of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.
The Punjab state borders the Punjab province of Pakistan to the west...
The Punjab Agricultural University was established in 1962 to serve the state of...
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 Maharaja Bhupinder Singh - SikhiWiki, free Sikh encyclopedia.
Maharaja Bhupinder Singh (12 October 1891 - 23 March 1938) was Maharaja of the princely state of Patiala from 1900 to 1938.
He was born at the Moti Bagh Palace in Patiala and educated at Aitchison College in Lahore.
He was to be the last Maharaja, agreeing to the incorporation of Patiala into the newly independent India on 5 May 1948, becoming Rajpramukh of the new Indian state of Patiala and East Punjab States Union.
www.sikhiwiki.org /index.php?title=Maharaja_Bhupinder_Singh   (396 words)

  
 The Hindu : Sport / Hockey : Convincing win for Himachal Pradesh
PEPSU slotted home nine goals against Vidarbha making the final fixture in the pool on Monday a must win situation for the home side.
PEPSU has the advantage on goal difference and even a draw will see PEPSU making the last eight.
PEPSU (Patiala and East Punjab States Union 9 (Sukhjinder Kaur (7), Pooja Rani, Nihal Kaur) bt Vidarbha 0.
www.hindu.com /2004/06/07/stories/2004060706231800.htm   (387 words)

  
 Biography of Maharaja Yadavinder Singh
Patiala had always been synonymous with Indian cricket boasting at Chail, the Maharaja's summer residence, the highest ground in the world.
Patiala was also one of the first princely states to decide on 13 March 1947 to participate in the Constituent Assembly and to send up its representatives as members.
hen the decision to partition the Punjab was announced, Yadavidra Singh went to viceroy Mountbatten and pleaded with him to fix the bounadary on the basis of landed and religious property rather than population there by preserving the central Punjab as a Sikh homeland.
www.sikh-history.com /sikhhist/personalities/yadvin.html   (1544 words)

  
 PATIALA AND EAST PUNJAB STATES UNION
The fact that the integration of the various constituent units of Pepsu was completed during the progress of resettlement operations also made certain adjustments necessary from time to time.
In Pepsu, Assistant Commissioners Rehabilitation are in charge of Rural Rehabilitation work in the districts while a Director, Rural Rehabilitation is responsible for the work of the Union as a whole.
The condition stated above covers (1) cases of exchange between allottees by mutual agreement, and (2) cases of exchange between land allotted to an individual and unallotted land lying at the disposal of the Custodian.
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 1THE PUNJAB CINEMAS (REGULATION)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
November,1956, were comprised in the State of Patiala and East Punjab States Union by the Punjab Laws (Extension No. 1) Act, 1957 (Punjab Act No. 5 of 1957); section 4, Schedule I.
Provided that the Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, constitute for the whole or any part of the State, such other authority as it may specify therein to be the licensing authority for the purposes of this Act.
An order made under this section shall remain in force for a period of two months from the date thereof, but the Government may, if it is of opinion that the order should continue in force, direct that the period of suspension shall be extended by such further period as it thinks fit.
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 Patiala and East Punjab States Union - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Patiala and East Punjab States Union, former union of states, 10,099 sq mi (26,156 sq km), NW India.
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 The Patiala :: Advertising Portal Of Patiala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
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 States and Territories of India
Most of the princely states were under the authority of a British political agent responsible to the governor of a province, but the four largest princely states, Hyderabad, Baroda, Mysore, and Jammu and Kashmir, were directly under the authority of the Governor-General of India.
The remainder of the states were merged into the new states or union territories.
The Kingdom of Sikkim was annexed to India as a state in 1975.
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 CPI(M) to Oppose Break-up of Linguistic States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
The difference was that, under the pressure of struggles launched by the All India States People’s Conference, princely states were merged in neighbouring provinces and then these provinces were divided into Group A, B and C states.
The autocratic rulers of these 560-odd states, some of whom did not stretch beyond a few miles, saw which way the wind was blowing and felt the pressure of their people’s struggles.
THE GAME OF the present linguistic states were won at the cost of heavy sacrifices; for instance, during the Samyukta Maharashtra agitation, a police firing claimed more than three dozen lives on a single day.
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 About Us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
SBP INTRODUCES FACILITY OF The rich heritage of State Bank of Patiala dates back to the year 1917, when it was founded by Late His Highness Bhupinder Singh, Maharaja of erstwhile Patiala state, with one branch by the name of 'Chowk Fort, Patiala' to begin with.
The Bank, then known as the 'Patiala State Bank' was state owned and setup for the explicit purpose of fostering growth of agriculture, trade and industry.
Another milestone in history of the Bank was its becoming a subsidiary of the State Bank of India on 1st April,1960 when it was named as the State Bank of Patiala and since then it has grown significantly both in size and volume of business.
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 Biography of Giani Zail Singh at www.sikh-history.com
One of his aims was to open the doors of modern progress for his state and have it counted among the more progressive territories of the region.
fter India was divided into Muslim Pakistan and Secular India, East Punjab's small kingdoms were made into a state called PEPSU short for Patiala and East Punjab States Union, that was conglomerate of Patiala,Jind, Nabha, Kapurthala and Faridkot states.
In 1949, a non party government was established in PEPSU with Gian Singh Rarewala of Patiala as Chief Minister and Giani Zail Singh as Revenue minister.
www.sikh-history.com /sikhhist/personalities/zail.html   (987 words)

  
 The Hindu : Miscellaneous / This Day That Age : dated August 31, 1954: Expansion of broadcasting
Three border States - the Punjab, the Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU) and Himachal Pradesh - got a powerful 50 KW medium wave transmitter on August 29 at Jullundur under the Five-Year Plan for the development of broadcasting in India.
Bhimsen Sachar, performed the opening ceremony in the presence of PEPSU's Chief Minister, Col. Raghbir Singh, and the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Dr. Y.S. Parmar.
The Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Dr. B.V. Keskar, who presided, said that, on completion of AIR's First Five-Year Plan, people in most parts of the country would be able to listen to radio programmes with ordinary medium-wave sets.
www.hindu.com /2004/08/31/stories/2004083101060900.htm   (233 words)

  
 PRIZE COMPETITIONS ACT 1955   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
(2)It extends to 1*[the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in] the States of Andhra, Bombay, Madras, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Hyderabad, Madhya Bharat, Patiala and East Punjab States Union and Saurashtra and all Part C States.
Extended to the Union territory of Pondicherry by Act 26 of 1968, s.3 and Schedule.
Any person aggrieved by the decision of the licensing authority refusing to grant a licence or cancelling or suspending a licence may, within such time as may be prescribed, prefer an appeal to the State Government and the decision of the State Government on such appeal shall be final.
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 Punjab - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
Punjab [Pers.,=five rivers], historic region in the NW of the Indian subcontinent.
In 1956, however, the state of East Punjab and the union territory of Patiala and East Punjab States Union
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