evidence: Himachal Pradesh is no longer a union territory; it was conferred statehood in 1971. Manipur and Tripura followed suit in 1972. Three regions—Nagaland, Mizoram, and Arunachal Pradesh—were all previously part of the Indian state of Assam and were carved out into union territories. Subsequently all of them became states of the Republic of India. Only Delhi, Lakshadweep, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands have maintained their union territory status from the original list. Delhi was granted a legislature in 1952. [...] The pre-independence Indian region of Punjab was divided after partition into West Punjab (in Pakistan) and East Punjab (in India). Lahore, the capital of the united Punjab, became part of Pakistan, so the Indian government created a new planned city called Chandigarh to serve as the capital of the new Punjab state in India. In 1966 Punjab was split into Punjab and Haryana. Straddling the border between Haryana and Punjab, the city of Chandigarh was made the shared capital of the two states and a union territory in its own right as well. Jammu and Kashmir was formerly a state with a legislature. In 2019, after an outbreak of violence in the region of Kashmir, India’s union government passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act, splitting the state into two union territories, one called Jammu and Kashmir and the other called Ladakh. The act followed a presidential order amending Article 370 of the Indian constitution, which in 1954 had conferred on the state of Jammu and Kashmir the power to have a separate constitution, a state flag, and autonomy of internal administration.