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Haryana was created out of Punjab in

  1. 1966

  2. 1972

  3. 1956

  4. 1958
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Haryana was carved out of the state of Punjab on November 1, 1966, on the basis of linguistic distribution. The division came after the Punjab Reorganization Act. Punjab remained a primarily Punjabi-speaking state, while Haryana became a Hindi-speaking state.

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