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  2. Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 - Wikipedia

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    The larger state of Punjab had been formed under the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 by merging East Punjab and PEPSU. The 1966 separation was the result of the Punjabi Suba movement, which agitated for the creation of a Punjabi-speaking state (the modern state of Punjab); in the process a majority Hindi-speaking state was created (effectively ...

  3. Punjabi Suba movement - Wikipedia

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    During the 1962 war effort, Pratap Singh Kairon, who opposed the Punjabi Suba from the beginning, had undertaken efforts to raise a rural volunteer force called the Punjab Raksha Dal ("Punjab Protection Army") for further reinforcement and manpower, and enlisted an American firm towards the construction of an air suspension factory in Punjab.

  4. Separation of powers - Wikipedia

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    Separation of powers requires a different source of legitimization, or a different act of legitimization from the same source, for each of the separate powers. If the legislative branch appoints the executive and judicial powers, as Montesquieu indicated, there will be no separation or division of its powers, since the power to appoint carries ...

  5. District magistrate - Wikipedia

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    While the powers exercised by the officer were mostly the same throughout the country, the preferred name often reflected his primary role in the particular province. In the Bengal Presidency , the post was called District Magistrate and Collector whereas in the Bombay Presidency and Central Provinces , it was known simply as the District ...

  6. Separatist movements of India - Wikipedia

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    The Khalistan movement in Punjab was active in the 1980s and early 1990s, but was suppressed and eventually died down. Secessionist movements in Northeast India involve multiple armed separatist factions operating in India 's northeastern states , which are connected to the rest of India by the Siliguri Corridor , a strip of land as narrow as ...

  7. Category:Separation of powers - Wikipedia

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    Separation of powers under the United States Constitution This page was last edited on 1 November 2020, at 12:55 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  8. History of India (1947–present) - Wikipedia

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    The separation of Kerala and the Telugu-speaking regions of Madras State enabled the creation of an exclusively Tamil-speaking state of Tamil Nadu. On 1 May 1960, the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat were created out of the bilingual Bombay State , and on 1 November 1966, the larger Punjab state was divided into the smaller, Punjabi -speaking ...

  9. Separation of powers under the United States Constitution

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    Separation of powers has again become a current issue of some controversy concerning debates about judicial independence and political efforts to increase the accountability of judges for the quality of their work, avoiding conflicts of interest, and charges that some judges allegedly disregard procedural rules, statutes, and higher court ...