Punjab Province (British India)

Punjab was a province of British India, it was one of the last areas of the Indian subcontinent to fall under British rule. With the end of British rule in 1947 the province was split between Pakistan and India. It comprised the areas of:

In present-day India

• Punjab State
• Himachal Pradesh
• Delhi
• Chandigarh
• Haryana

In present-day Pakistan

• Islamabad Capital Territory
• Punjab Province
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan (until 1901, see North-West Frontier Province )

Etymology

The word Punjab is named from the "five rivers" by which it is watered: the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej, all tributaries of the Indus.

Geography

Geographically the Punjab province of India was a triangular tract of country of which the Indus and the Sutlej to their confluence formed the two sides, the base being the lower Himalaya hills between those two rivers; but the British province also included a large tract outside those boundaries. Along the northern border Himalayan ranges divided it from Kashmir and Tibet. On the west it was separated from the North-West Frontier Province by the Indus, until that river reaches the border of Dera Ghazi Khan District, which was divided from......
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