East Punjab
| State of East Punjab | |||||||||||
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| State of India | |||||||||||
| 1947–1950 | |||||||||||
East Punjab, 1950 | |||||||||||
| Capital | Shimla | ||||||||||
| Historical era | 20th century | ||||||||||
• Established | 15 August 1947 | ||||||||||
• PEPSU formed | 15 July 1948 | ||||||||||
| 26 January 1950 | |||||||||||
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| Today part of | Punjab Chandigarh Haryana Himachal Pradesh | ||||||||||
East Punjab was a state of Dominion of India from 1947 until 1950. It consisted parts of the Punjab Province of British India that remained in India following the partition of the state between the new dominions of Pakistan and India by the Radcliffe Commission in 1947. The mostly Muslim western parts of the old Punjab became Pakistan's West Punjab, later, renamed as Punjab Province, while the mostly Hindu and Sikh eastern parts remained with India.