| Province of the Punjab | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Province of British India | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1849–1947 | |||||||||||||||||||
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Badge_of_British_Punjab.svg) Coat of arms
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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Punjab_1909.jpg) &sq=Qlik&lang=&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 | |||||||||||||||||||
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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. 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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- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 653.