Punjabi Suba
proposed Indian state
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advocacy by Fateh Singh
- In Sant Fateh Singh
…were advocating the establishment of Punjabi Suba, a Punjabi-speaking autonomous state in India in which Sikh religious, cultural, and linguistic integrity could be preserved intact.
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role of Gandhi
- In India: Indira Gandhi’s impact
…long-standing Sikh demand of a Punjabi suba (state), which required partition of the existing state of Punjab but left its newly designed capital of Chandigarh as shared administrative headquarters of the new states of Punjab, with a Sikh majority, and Haryana, with a slight Hindu majority.
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