Chandigarh, the dream city of India's first Prime Minister, Sh. Jawahar Lal Nehru. Chandigarh is the only Indian city to have been designed and planned by a single architect – Le Corbusier. Infact, this was to be the first planned city of India. It was built in 1953. Chandigarh also called The City Beautiful, is a city in India that serves as the capital of two states, Punjab and Haryana, and is a union territory of India. The name translates from Punjabi to English as "the fort of Chandi", Chandi di Var was written by Guru Gobind Singh ji in the Dasam Granth talking about Chandi a Hindu Goddess.
Picturesquely located at the foothills of Shivaliks, the Union territory of Chandigarh serves as the capital of Punjab and Haryana. The city derives its name from the temple of ""Chandi Mandir"" located in the vicinity of the site selected for the city. The deity 'Chandi', the goddess of power and a fort 'garh' beyond the temple gave the city its name ""Chandigarh-The City Beautiful"".Known internationally for its architecture and urban planning, Chandigarh is home to numerous architectural. |
After the partition of British India into the two nations of India and Pakistan in 1947, the region of Punjab was also split between India and Pakistan. The Indian state of Punjab required a new capital city to replace Lahore, which became part of Pakistan during the partition. The city derives its name from Chandi Mandir, a temple of goddess Chandi, located in nearby Panchkula District of Haryana. The word Chandigarh literally means "the fort of Chandi".
On 1 November,1966, the newly-formed Indian state of Haryana was carved out of the eastern portion of the Punjab, in order to create Haryana as a majority Hindi speaking state, while the western portion of Punjab retained a mostly Punjabi language-speaking majority and remained as the current day Punjab.
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