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Haryana has proud history going
back to the Vedic Age. The state of the home of the legendary Bharata
dynasty ,Which has given the name Bharat to India. Haryana finds
mention in the great epic of maharashtra,kurukshetra,the scene of epic
battle between the kauravas and the pandvas,is situated in haryana. The
state continued to play the leading part in the history of india till
the advent of the muslim and the rise of delhi as imperial capital
of india.Thereafter haryana functioned as the adjunct to delhi and
practically remained anonymous till the first war of india's
independence in 1857,when the rebellion was crushed and the
British administration reestablished Nawabs of Jhajjar and the
bhadurgarh,raja of ballabhagarh and Rao Tula Ram of Rewari of the
haryana region were deprived of their territories. Their territories were
either merged with the british territories or handed over to the rules
of patiala,nabha,jind. Haryana thus became a part of Punjab province ,with
reorganization of Punjab on November 1,1966 Haryana was made in to
full fledged state.
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