Weaken them by making a state where electoral prospects are just decided by them? That is just counter intuitive. If you don't divide the state, they aren't in the majority anymore but it does increase the administrative burden.
Also, you are talking about the same person who gave away land in other states, even the Himalayan ones to the community. They had very limited presence there before.
If you read the history of the religion and subcontinent, there is no reason he would even want to weaken them as well. Leaving the small separatist voices aside, the vast majority is so intermingled with the dominant religion in North India, that there is no reason to do this.
Anyway, it seems you are even less aware about this topic than most people are. I am not sure where you are getting your information from, but reading from your charged language I can only ask you to not fall for hyperbole and look at things pragmatically.
They wanted all of Punjab to be theirs, no? Not sharing a capital with Haryana. I would think they were settling, if they got a more compact state. What I will say is that Sikhs I met in USA were not happy with say splitting Chandigarh.
>Punjab and Haryana have different dominant languages
A lot of Punjabi-speaking Hindus "chose" Hindi for that to be true IIRC.
> I would think they were settling, if they got a more compact state.
It is not like any land exchange happened. Sure, some resources got divided but I wouldn't see it as settling. If you read analysis about management of big states, even now a lot of analysts believe some of the other big states should be split up.
> What I will say is that Sikhs I met in USA were not happy with say splitting Chandigarh.
Well, that's not representative of them, no? I have also met people who are not happy with that decision and also people who are indifferent to it.
> A lot of Punjabi-speaking Hindus "chose" Hindi for that to be true IIRC.
Not really, look at any language census from before as well in the districts that became the new state.
But the linguistic issue is not just limited to that state. Look at the northern Himalayan states and look at what has happened to their languages. Hindi has just subsumed their languages with its words and now most people speak Hindi only. This situation is made worse because of the necessity of English as a language, their own mother tongue kind of becomes third in the priority list.
Also, you are talking about the same person who gave away land in other states, even the Himalayan ones to the community. They had very limited presence there before.
If you read the history of the religion and subcontinent, there is no reason he would even want to weaken them as well. Leaving the small separatist voices aside, the vast majority is so intermingled with the dominant religion in North India, that there is no reason to do this.
Anyway, it seems you are even less aware about this topic than most people are. I am not sure where you are getting your information from, but reading from your charged language I can only ask you to not fall for hyperbole and look at things pragmatically.