Wassalaam, Non Muslims were 12% of Total Population of Pakistan , both East and West[Total Population of East 42 Million and West 34 Million ] ,22% in East Pakistan and in West 1.85% ,the Figures are same there is no noticeable change so After the fall of Dacca and creation of Bangladesh ,Non Muslim Population of Pakistan is still 1.85 with 1.6 % Hindus .so thats just propaganda. only 3 times in entire recorded history has this landmass become one country. But that does not seem to satisfy you and think more Muslim majority areas should have been given to India. Punjab, Punjab States, No 44I This range contains maps acquired by, or transferred to, the India Office Library and Records in the FCO between 15 August 1947 and 31 December 1973. A large part of Kausr tehsil was awarded to India on the flimsy Focus on your words dear, and let your own self decide who is HATE SPEAKER. British Province Punjab,before 1947. Anyways Radcliffe seemed to agree with your point and awarded even Zira to India with 66% Muslim Population. Can you have detail map of patiala and nabha princely state religion data. Your suggestion regarding spam also has been noted. At least present day India is not a Hindu Homeland. !You are right Enfield ji, we are made to realize these differences. There again, my circle of friends was quite like my school days. More. administered area. :) Jas ji - meiN bilkhul teek taak hai - thusi sunao. I wonder what exactly do you have in mind. The Constitution of India, which came into effect in 1950, renamed the province of "East Punjab" as the state of "Punjab". Unsung Heroes Of Punjab. on any "lost" territory. That is enough for me.I have Pakistani punjabi friends...they have the same view.We just need to learn to live together, somehow mend these bonds. However, I kept on searching for more than two decades and finally found most of Particularly, your work on maps is very apprecianble. most of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Kashmir valley. Inner Lahore was 63% Muslim, Lahore Metro total was 60% Muslim.It was majority Muslim city and district. Thank you Jas Ji. Anyway if seven and half Muslim majority tehsils and a princely state of Kapurthala given to India, cannot satisfy you then nothing can. An area if it has even a decimal point more population more then 50% should have been given to Pakistan as that is the law of maths (50% or above is majority). first under ashoka, second under the mughals and third under the british so 2 out of 3 times the so called foreign invaders united it otherwise it was always divided into multiple kingdoms. Enfield sahib, From one sher Jatt to another (hahaha) - welcome to my blog and thanks for your detailed input. there is hardly anything common between a tamilian and a kashmiri or a punjabi or an odisi. mentioned above after the mutiny a large area west of Jamuna river was annexed India 57.88%, against Hindus/Sikhs population of 41.5%. 0000000756 00000 n
Welcome aboard. The result is a conflict, within and without, which is psychosocial/sociopolitical. is why I have tried to stick to just facts, whether census figures or 1798 1836 1857 1909 From 1780 to 1947 [best maps] . Thereafter, I went to attend medical college in South India. At the same time some people conveniently ignore the fact that Punjab states like Patiala, Nabha, Maler Kotla, Kapurthala, Jind etc. Thank you Sphere Sahib. How was your Xmas break ?Enfield - I think Russia is now one big joke. large, but many were so small that it was difficult to represent them even on a very large scale map. There was no issue of Hindu and Muslim Homelands. I do not often visit shrines. The Sikhs though only 14% of the population owned about 29% of the land. geographical. Pakistan studies about this issue. map shows that most of the Christian population of Punjab was concentrated in Inbox me if you have power thanks Gujranwala rose rapidly and captured Lahore in 1799. ^ ^ Sorry mate. However, in reality, it is that as we grow older we begin to take an exaggerated view of certain things which earlier wouldn't have bothered, while, at the same time, narrowing our view on certain other things. To their surprise, there were no laws, no lanes, no traffic police, however, traffic was moving, people were reaching their destinations, and there were relatively very few accidents. As population of Punjab rose rapidly during the fifty years between 1891 - 1941. 44 23
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In 1858, the Punjab, along with the rest of British India, came under the direct rule of the British crown. The last This is an unending debate. He came to Delhi along with his family members. not published until 17. A much fairer partition should have been either on total population percentage wise so instead of the East Punjab getting only 38% of the land area as awarded by Radcliffe and West Punjab getting 62% then West Punjab should have got 57% which was what the Muslim population percentage was. So I came up with the following map: The basic rationale behind this proposal is to give Amritsar, being the holiest place for Sikhs, to India. How did you make these maps? He was so perplexed that finally he asked them, "But where are the Indians?". Haryanvi. 0000003607 00000 n
I hope you will find the information interesting and may be useful. In doing so it We Pakistanis generally take a lot of interest in heate... About two years ago in one of my posts I gave the details of the Muslim population of India, according to the censuses of 1941 and 2001. Haha - looks like we have a couple of comedians here...keep the jokes coming. Before moving to my subject I would like to give a historical Which were about 20 per cent of the total population of Punjab. It is India which evolved in thousands of years. The northeast Hill States of the Punjab Province banded together and were declared a union territory in 1950 as Himachal Pradesh. I don't really have a dog in this fight, but as an outsider, I think there's a case to be made that since Pakistan was meant from the beginning to be Muslim state whereas India would remain a state for many religions, most religiously mixed areas should have remained in India unless there was an overwhelming Muslim majority, not just 50-55%. accomplish in a very limited time and that’s too in a very charged atmosphere. Obviously, though, most of Kashmir should have ended up in Pakistan. 0000003938 00000 n
This area included Muslim majority parts of all the three tehsils of Ludhiana district, Jagraon,Ludhiana and Samrala. the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle. It this account, have solid grounds. I am Atif from India. 0000000016 00000 n
Out of this situation Ranjit Singh of ", The commission had a very difficult and complicated task to they take figures of population falling only in British administered areas and disintegration of the Mughal Empire, Sikh power rapidly rose in central and After partition a sizable section of Muslim population decided to move to Pakistan. The Hindus form majority in East Punjab region with 40,234,605 adherents comprising (65.94%), Sikhs are 17,466,731 comprising (28.62%) of the region, Muslims are 2,518,159 comprising (4.12%) of the region and others are 795,357 including Christians, Buddhists, Jains and atheists together comprising remaining (1.3%) of the region. Or what would have been my decision? Pre-partition Map of Punjab Punjab was a huge area prior to the 1947 partition, and further subsequent dismemberment into Himachal Pradesh and Haryana. dependent on the Radcliffe Award, so this division was called Notional Division. East Punjab (known simply as Punjab from 1950) was a province and later a state of India from 1947 until 1966, consisting of the parts of the Punjab Province of British India that went to India following the partition of the province between India and Pakistan by the Radcliffe Commission in 1947. The last census in the British Raj was conducted in 1941. eastern Punjab in late 1750s. Its terms of reference were defined as thus: "The Boundary Commission is instructed to demarcate the I came across your blog and saw your work on Partition of Punjab. But almost 200 states had an area of less than 25 sq. ground of protecting Amritsar city. At the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh the Sikh state of Punjab became politically unstable. I request you do this all if you get time. While USSR was in existence, a delegation from there visited India. For the 1881-1941 period, the compound annual growth rate of population works out as 0.84 per cent for Punjab. Actually this After doing all this research, collecting data and making maps, I kept on thinking that what should have been a more just and fair award? In to Punjab. Sure you can use it on your Facebook page. Majority of Muslims were Hindus and Sikhs before accepting Islam. background of the modern political boundaries of Punjab. It seems Muslims caught on the wrong side of the eventual line would likely fare better in India than non-Muslims would in Pakistan, so it would be best for the line drawers to go out of their way to limit how many non-Muslims ended up in Pakistan.