When a war between India and Pakistan seemed imminent in 1965, .................., the President of the Akali Dal, refusing to suspend the agitation affirmed that “the country is dear but Punjabi Suba [state] is dearer.”

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• The Punjabi Suba Movement led by the ............... aimed at creation of a Punjabi-majority state ("subah") in the Punjab region of India in the 1950s.
• The Akali Dal representing the Sikhs of ............. launched an agitation for reorganisation of the province on the basis of linguistic homogeneity.
• Following the Indo-Pak war of ................... Punjabi was finally recognized as the official language of Punjab.
• ................. presided over the Udaipur and Gwalior Sessions of the AISPC (1945 & 47) and declared at Gwalior that the states refusing to join the constituent Assembly would be treated as hostile.
• The States Reorganization Commission appointed by the Prime Minister in December .............. discarded the demand for the formation of a separate Punjabi-speaking state.
• The Sino-Indian War also known as the Sino-Indian Border Conflict was a war between China and India that occurred in ...........
• Under Muslim League’s leader, ..................., the party put forth its 'two nation theory' that Hindus and Muslims were really two nations and that the Muslim majority areas of India should be partitioned to form a separate state called Pakistan.
• Indo-Pakistani War of ............. is also called the First Kashmir War.
• Indo-Pakistani War of .............Commonly known as Kargil War.
• The ceremonies for the transfer of power were held a day earlier in ................, at the time the capital of the new state of Pakistan.