He then left the city and headed towards the barren lands of East Punjab and central India full of forests and wild animals.
Sahitya Akademi (Indian academy of letters) award-winner Prem Parkash (born April 7, 1932. Khanna, Ludhiana district) is one of the major short story writers in post-1947 East Punjabi literature.
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Muslims refugees from East Punjab, Haryana, Jammu started arriving and crossed the border into Pakistan; many were given land in Gujrat District to settle.
Jalal is a noted village located in the Bathinda district of East Punjab (Indian Punjab) as a noted Punjabi singer, Kuldeep Manak, hailed from and buried here.
They have two large territorial groupings, the Deswale who originate in what is East Punjab and the Multani, who are said to originate in from the city of Multan.
A part of the former state of PEPSU, including the south-eastern portion around Jind and the Narnaul enclave, presently lie within the state of Haryana, which was separated from Punjab on 1 November 1966.
In 1947, Punjab Province was partitioned into West Punjab and East Punjab and the East Punjab Legislative Assembly was formed, the forerunner of the current assembly consisting of 72 members.
He served successively as General Officer Commanding (GOC) of Delhi and East Punjab (1947–48); GOC Eastern Command (1948); and GOC Southern Command (1948–53), following the retirement of Lt. General E. N. Goddard.