260 Kilometers In Four Hours :: The 260-kilometer trip from Delhi to Chandigarh, the shared capital city of both Punjab and Haryana, two farming states in northern India, is a four-hour train ride. Punjab was first split during the partition of British India in 1947 along religious lines, with the mostly Muslim western part becoming the Pakistani province of West Punjab. The mostly Sikh and Hindu eastern part became the Indian province of Punjab. India’s Punjab was again divided in 1966, this time into three parts based on linguistics: the Punjabi-speaking state of Punjab and the Hindi-speaking states of Haryana and Himachel Pradesh. (Image © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue)