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The Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU) was a state of India, uniting eight princely states between 1948 and 1956. The capital and principal city was Patiala. The state covered an area of 26,208 km 2. Shimla, Kasauli, Kandaghat and Chail also became part of PEPSU.
These 8 princely states were Patiala, Nabha, Jind, Malerkotla, Kapurthala, Faridkot, Nalagarh and Kalsian called PEPSU. Patiala State was the Capital or Head State of PEPSU.
PATIALA AND EAST PUNJAB STATES UNION, popularly known as PEPSU, formed on 5 May 1948 by merging together of eight East Punjab princely states of Patiala, Jind, Nabha, Kapurthala, Faridkot, Kalsia, Malerkotia and Nalagarh, was formally inaugurated on 15 July 1948 by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Deputy Prime Minister of India.
Hindoostan-Thibet Road. The British moved from Calcutta to their summer capital Simla, between April to October every year. The annual move to Simla was not only undertaken by the Viceroy and his council but the entire infrastructure of colonial bureaucracy and their Armed forces.
Jun 27, 2024 · The post-partition history of East Punjab was complicated, as it was made and remade more than once within two short decades. From 1948–1956, East Punjab coexisted with the Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU), a federation of the princely states of Patiala, Kapurthala, Jind, Nabha, Faridkot, Malerkotla, Kalsia, and Nalagarh.
Simla: The British in India From the 1830s until the end of British rule, Simla was the summer capital of successive Governors-General and Viceroys. James Lunt | Published in History Today Volume 18 Issue 7 July 1968
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The Simla Agreement, also spelled Shimla Agreement, was a peace treaty signed between India and Pakistan on 2 July 1972 in Shimla, the capital city of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It followed the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 , which began after India intervened in East Pakistan as an ally of Bengali rebels who were fighting against ...
