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Haryana's History
On 1 November 1966, Haryana was carved
out on the basis of that the parts of Punjab which were to be
Haryana's "Hindi-speaking areas." What had really happened was that
an Hindu organization known as Vishwa Hindu Parishad then-called
Jansangh, went to the parts of Punjab of which the people were
Punjabi speaking and they went and asked them what was their
national language, they said it is Hindi. So on that basis, they
made it seem like that all the people that they went to told them
that Hindi is their language, national indeed. Same example was
followed in creation of Himachal Pradesh. They were the mostly
Punjabi-speaking eastern portion of Punjab, while the other
Punjabi-speaking eastern portion remained as current day Punjab
(India). The city of Chandigarh, also a Punjabi speaking area of
district Rupnagar was made a union territory to serve as capital of
both these states. Chandigarh was due to transfer to state of Punjab
in 1986, according to the Rajiv-Longowal Accord, but the transfer
has been delayed pending an agreement on which parts of the
supposedly Hindi speaking areas of Abohar and Fazilka, currently
part of Firozpur District of Punjab, that should be transferred to
Haryana in exchange. In the 1970s, Haryana contributed significantly
to the Green Revolution and White Revolution in India. |
