India’s new and smaller Punjab—one-seventh the size of undivided Punjab—was essentially British Punjab’s Jullundur division (minus its hill districts) together with the Amritsar and Gurdaspur districts of the old Lahore division, plus Patiala and other Punjabi-speaking tracts previously ruled by rajas. While the hilly principalities adjoining British eastern Punjab along with Jullundur division’s hill districts became Himachal, the new state of Haryana was reminiscent of the Ambala division of British days.
