The land of five waters gave the world its first cities, its saints and its songs. Broken by every empire that crossed it, it is still ours to remember, and to make whole again.

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PUNJAB WIKIਪੰਜਾਬپنجابStruggles
Punjab WikiStruggles & Partitions
1966

The Punjabi Suba

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After a long agitation for a Punjabi-speaking state, Indian Punjab was divided again on 1 November 1966: Haryana and the hill districts were cut away, Chandigarh was made a shared union territory, and the river waters were placed under the centre. Those grievances fed the next twenty years.

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Divided again

1947 and 1966

Whose rivers?

The Indus Waters Treaty, 1960
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