Hello, IMPARTIAL - Well u don't seem to be so impartial. It's true that many Hindu punjabis do report Hindi as their mother tongue, even though they live in Punjab and speak Punjabi. It may be because they associate %u2018Punjabi%u2019 with Sikhism and %u2018Hindi%u2019 with Hinduism. As juvenile this attitude may be, it seems to be true. Same as Pakistani Punjabis also write %u2018Urdu%u2019 as their mother tongue even if they speak Punjabi at home. Rather silly, but a mother tongue unites people on the basis of culture and geography, but some choose to associate it with religion instead.
Anyhow, Punjab was divided into three pieces in 1966, and this was to give Punjab a %u2018Punjabi-speaking%u2019majority, but since many Punjabi-speaking Hindu brothers chose to declare Hindi as their mother tongue, this created a discrepancy and the people who were non-Sikhs skewed the %u2018Punjab-speaking population%u2019 curve and therefore Punjab was carved and reduced further. It%u2019s possible that Punjab may still have been divided, but it would not have been as small geographically as it is today. The partition took place on grounds of religion and not culture, language, etc.
The Chandigarh issue also stems from this. After the 1947 partition, Chandigarh was to be the capital of the new Punjab, and Rajiv Gandhi even signed an agreement with Harchand Singh Longowal in 1985 that Chandigarh was to be transferred to Punjab, but even the Prime Minister%u2019s word is o
