AHC: Independent Khalistan

For those of you who don't know, the Khalistan movemnet is essentially a movement for a seperate Sikh majority state from Indian Punjab (and in some definitions, Pakistani Punjab).
Your challenge is to create such a state with a PoD of after 1948 and must include all of Indian Punjab, bonus points for it to include Pakistani Punjab as well.
 
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For those of you who don't know, the Khalistan movemnet is essentially a movement for a seperate Sikh majority state from Indian Punjab (and in some definitions, Pakistani Punjab).
Your challenge is to create such a state with a PoD of 1948 and must include all of Indian Punjab, bonus points for it to include Pakistani Punjab as well.
Difficult considering in 1948 Sikhs weren't a majority anywhere.
 
For those of you who don't know, the Khalistan movemnet is essentially a movement for a seperate Sikh majority state from Indian Punjab (and in some definitions, Pakistani Punjab).
Your challenge is to create such a state with a PoD of after 1948 and must include all of Indian Punjab, bonus points for it to include Pakistani Punjab as well.
Are you using the 1948 definition of 'Indian Punjab', which would include Haryana and thus bring its border almost to the gates of Delhi?
 
Are you using the 1948 definition of 'Indian Punjab', which would include Haryana and thus bring its border almost to the gates of Delhi?

no, I meant the modern definition. But definetely bonus points for the 1948 defintion Indian Punjab.
 
The timeline I am developing contains an independent Khalistan. I envision it forming as part of a pair of civil wars which tore [India] apart in the early 1960's, resulting in over a half dozen independent states. It was helped along by [Pakistan], which saw Khalistan as a useful buffer state.
 
The timeline I am developing contains an independent Khalistan. I envision it forming as part of a pair of civil wars which tore [India] apart in the early 1960's, resulting in over a half dozen independent states. It was helped along by [Pakistan], which saw Khalistan as a useful buffer state.

has it been posted yet? it sounds interesting.
 
India balkanizes in Fear, Loathing and Gumbo, where it seems that Indira Gandhi goes to prison after the Emergency and is more... hardened when she gets out.

Closer to OTL, Indira isn't shot and some serious shit could go down. Or better yet, Sanjay lives...
 
For those of you who don't know, the Khalistan movemnet is essentially a movement for a seperate Sikh majority state from Indian Punjab (and in some definitions, Pakistani Punjab).
Your challenge is to create such a state with a PoD of after 1948 and must include all of Indian Punjab, bonus points for it to include Pakistani Punjab as well.

The trouble is that even in the Punjab Sikhs are a minority.
 
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