Punjab Province (British India)

Province of the Punjab
Province of British India
1849–1947
Coat of arms of Punjab Province
Coat of arms

Maps of the Punjab Province
Anthem
"God Save the King"
Capital
DemonymPunjabi
Government
 • TypeBritish Colonial Government
 • MottoCrescat 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 eraNew 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
Preceded by
Succeeded by
1849:
Sikh Empire
1858:
North-Western Provinces
1862:
Cis-Sutlej states
1901:
North-West Frontier Province
1947:
West Punjab
East Punjab
PEPSU
Today part ofIndia
Pakistan

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. In 1858, the Punjab, along with the rest of British India, came under the rule of the British Crown. 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.[1] 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.


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  1. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Punjab" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 653.