The script is also widely used in the Indian states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and the national capital of Delhi, with Punjabi being one of the official languages in these states.

It traverses 4, 057 km along the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.

His territories cover the eastern dominions of the divided Greek empire of Bactria ( Panjshir and Kapisa ) and extend to the modern Pakistani province of Punjab, most of the Indian states of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh and the Jammu region.

Further, this fact is confirmed and reiterated from the correspondence of the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir dated October 26, 1947 with Lord Mountbatten, Governor General of India which states that the state of Jammu and Kashmir has a common boundary with the “ Soviet Republic ”, and the said statement also determines the fact that inter alia Gilgit and Kanjut ( which includes the Raskam, Hunza valley and Taghdumbash ) are integral parts of Jammu and Kashmir. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had also made a similar statement that " Jammu and Kashmir's Northern

These statements of the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir as well as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru also have a bearing on the territorial extent of Kanjut as well as the rest of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir at the time of her accession “ in its entirety to the new Dominion of India ” on October 26 and Section ( 4 ) of the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir which pertains to the territorial extent of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir also unequivocally states that, “ The territory of the State shall comprise all the territories which on the fifteenth day of August, 1947, were under the sovereignty or suzerainty of the Ruler of the State ".

The Indian Government had initiated planning for development of Ravi and Beas rivers with treaty negotiations, which involved contributions the states of Punjab, PEPSU, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir ( J & K ) within the ambit of the already developed Bhakra Nangal Dam project on the Sutlej River.

* India: The Vidhan Parishad ( or Legislative Council ) in seven of the twenty-eight Indian states ( Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh ), the Vidhan Parishad serves as the upper house of a bicameral legislature

Prior to 1815 the area now known as " Jammu and Kashmir " comprised 22 small independent states ( 16 Hindu and 6 Muslim ) carved out of territories controlled by the Afghanistan Amir ( King ) combined with those of local small rulers.

Some states were of such importance that their rulers were almost always appointed Knights Grand Commanders ; such rulers included the Nizam of Hyderabad, the Maharaja of Mysore, the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, the Maharaja of Baroda, the Maharajas of Gwalior, the Nawab of Bhopal, the Maharaja of Indore, the Maharana of Udaipur, the Maharaja of Travancore, the Maharana of Jodhpur and the Maharao of Cutch.

* The Maharajas of Baroda, Gwalior, Sailana, Jammu and Kashmir, Mysore, Indore, Udaipur, Kolhapur and Travancore, other major salute states, the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Nawab of Bhopal usually received the GCIE before they received a GCSI

Large communities of Punjabis are also found in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir and the states of Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.

The province was bordered by the Indian states of East Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir to the east, the princely state of Bahawalpur to the south, the provinces of Balochistan and Sindh to the southwest, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to the northwest, and Azad Kashmir to the northeast.

After the First and Second World Wars, the princely rulers of several of the major states, including Gwalior, Kolhapur, Patiala, Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Jammu and Kashmir and Hyderabad were given honourary general officer ranks as a result of their states ' contributions to the war effort.

After the First and Second World Wars, the princely rulers of several of the major states, including Gwalior, Patiala, Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Jammu and Kashmir and Hyderabad were given this rank as a result of their states ' enormous contributions to the war effort.

By the beginning of the 20th century, relations between the British and the four largest states — Hyderabad, Mysore, Jammu and Kashmir, and Baroda — were directly under the control of the Governor-General of India, in the person of a British Resident.

There were officially 565 princely states in 1947, but only 21 had actual state governments, and only three were large ( Mysore, Hyderabad and Kashmir ).

Tibetans live in the Tibet autonomous region, Qinghai, Western Sichuan, Gansu and Northern Yunnan provinces in China and in Ladakh in the Kashmir region of Pakistan and India, while Manipuris, Mizo, Naga, Tripuri, Idu Mishmis, and Garo live in Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, and Meghalaya states of India.

Many Kanyakubji Bramhins found in different states also belong to this gotra, as their forefathers have migrated from Kashmir valley before settling around Kanyakubja ( present day Kanauj in U. P. India ).

Jinnah also fought hard for the annexation of Kashmir, a Muslim majority state with Hindu ruler ; and the accession of Hyderabad and Junagadh, Hindu-majority states with Muslim rulers.

He hit back at critics in a second article, dismissing the Indian version of the " domino theory " which held that the rest of India's states would disintegrate if Kashmir were allowed its promised freedom.

The speakers of Hindko live primarily in seven districts: Mansehra, Abbottabad, Haripur, Peshawar, Nowshera, Akora Khattak, Swabi and Kohat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Attock and Rawalpindi in Punjab and parts of Pakistan-administered Kashmir including Muzaffarabad ; Jonathan Addleton states that " Hindko is the linguistic majority in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, represented in nearly one-third of the province's total households.

miles, An area larger than Mysore or Gwalior and the size of Nepal and Kashmir put together ( although it was the size of France when the first Nizam held reign )-and one of the most prosperous, among the princely states of the British Raj.

Robert Van Voorst states that modern scholarship has " almost unanimously agreed " that claims of the travels of Jesus to Tibet, Kashmir or India contain " nothing of value ".

The primary idealogy of Kashmir Saivism states that the individual soul is one with the universal spirit, and each person has to experience and discover this for themselves.

Rajatarangini ( meaning the ' river of kings '), a tenth century literary work by Kalhana, states that the Choli from the Deccan was introduced under the royal order in Kashmir.

The western wing was formed from three full provinces ( Hazara ( then NWFP ), West Punjab and Sind ), one Chief Commissioner's Province ( Baluchistan ), thirteen princely states and parts of Kashmir.

The last name " Singh " is in fact used by a wider population from Bihar Jharkhand Punjab to Uttar Pradesh and from Kashmir down into Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharastra to Uttarakhand as well as the far eastern states of Manipur, Assam, Tripura, Sikkim, and even Bhutan, spanning the entire subcontinent and even reaching Southeast Asia, where in Thailand, as the Chakri Dynasty strove to empower Siam after the fall of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, Singh Singhaseni ( 1777 – 1849 ) was a prominent general, and Chao (" Lord ") Racha Wong Singh governed Yasothon, 1815 – 1823.

" He also states " The origins of Balti cooking are wide ranging and owe as much to China ( with a slight resemblance to the spicy cooking of Szechuan ) and Tibet as well as to the ancestry of the Mirpuris, the tastes of the Moghul emperors, the aromatic spices of Kashmir, and the ' winter foods ' of lands high in the mountains.

These states were subjugated by force by the Dogra rulers of Kashmir in the nineteenth century.

These states along with Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Sikkim lie mostly in the Himalayan region.

Most were merged into existing provinces ; others were organised into new provinces, such as Rajputana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Bharat, and Vindhya Pradesh, made up of multiple princely states ; a few, including Mysore, Hyderabad, Bhopal, and Bilaspur, became separate provinces.

BJP is currently in power in six states ( Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh and Goa ) where the party enjoys a majority of its own.

Indian Punjab was further divided in 1966 with the formation of the new states of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh as well as the current state of Punjab.

At that time, the Punjab state of India included present-day states of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh ( some parts ) along with Chandigarh.

* India: Kashmir's Ladakh area, Himachal Pradesh and most other Himalayan states.

More than 100 people are killed and over 5 million made homeless in the states of Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, and Assam.

* 15 April 1948-Mandi District was formed by amalgamation of the erstwhile princely states of Mandi and Suket on the formation of Himachal Pradesh.

The Congress ( R ) was defeated in all the states, and the Janata party took power in seven-Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh.

These small states, ruled by Rajput kings, were variously independent, vassals of the Mughal Empire since the time of Emperor Akbar or sometimes controlled from Kangra state in the Himachal area.

The majority of Punjabi-speaking people in India can be found in the Indian states of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, as well as in Delhi and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.

The original Punjab Province under British rule is now divided into several units: West Punjab ( now in Pakistan ), the Indian states of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh and the Indian Union territory of Chandigarh.

The LAC is 4, 057-km long and traverses three areas of northern Indian states: western ( Ladakh, Kashmir ), middle ( Uttarakhand, Himachal ) and eastern ( Sikkim, Arunachal ).

Till the re-organisation of Punjab in 1966, the university had its regional centres at Rohtak, Shimla, Jalandhar and its affiliated colleges were located in the states of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and U. T.

With the re-organisation of Punjab, the university became an Inter-State Body Corporate catering to the newly organised states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and U. T.

The centre has helped the states of Haryana, Panjab and Himachal Pradesh in solving problems associated with energy planning, management and environmental protection.

The centre has helped the states of Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, U. T.

The Indian states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and Delhi are also part of the historic Punjab region.

According to a directive of the Government of India, planning for development of the Ravi and Beas rivers was initiated concurrently with the treaty negotiations, which involved four riparian states of Punjab, PEPSU ( this was merged with Punjab and subsequently Punjab was divided, and additionally the Haryana state was created ), Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir ( J & K ) within the ambit of the already developed Bhakra Nangal Dam project on the Sutlej River.

At that time, the Punjab state of India included present-day states of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh ( some parts ) along with Chandigarh.