Volume-II, Issue-III, January 2026
Volume-II, Issue-III, January, 2026 |
Received: 15.01.2026 | Accepted: 20.01.2026 | ||
Published Online: 31.01.2026 | Page No: 673-680 | ||
DOI: 10.69655/atmadeep.vol.2.issue.03W.257 | |||
স্বাধীন ভারতের শিখ পরিচিতির আন্দোলন: পাঞ্জাবি সুবা আন্দোলনের একটি সংক্ষিপ্ত পর্যালোচনা শুক্লা মণ্ডল, গবেষক, রাষ্ট্রবিজ্ঞান বিভাগ, বর্ধমান বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারত |
The Sikh Identity Movement in Independent India: A Brief Review of the Punjabi Suba Movement Sukla Mandal, Research Scholar, Department of Political Science, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India | ||
ABSTRACT | ||
A historic ethnolinguistic campaign in post-1947 India called the Punjabi Suba movement aimed to establish a province specifically for Punjabi speakers. The movement was closely linked to the Sikh community's struggle for political and cultural autonomy inside the Indian Union, even if its ostensible foundation was the idea of linguistic reorganisation. The nearly two-decade-long movement, which was spearheaded by the Shiromani Akali Dal, was marked by widespread demonstrations, acts of civil disobedience, and hunger strikes. When the conflict peaked in 1966, the central government was compelled to divide the pre-existing state of East Punjab. This resulted in the transfer of hilly areas to Himachal Pradesh, the creation of the present-day Punjabi-majority state of Punjab, and the Hindi-speaking state of Haryana. Beyond just redrawing maps, the movement established the current administrative and linguistic boundaries of Northern India and significantly altered the region's identity politics. With an emphasis on the Suba movement's historical evolution and sociopolitical relevance, this essay employs an analytical methodology and secondary sources. | ||
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