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	Articles - Kapurthala
		In the north it is bound by Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur, and Amritsar districts, in the west by River Beas and Amritsar District, and in south by the Sutlej River, Jalandhar District, and Hoshiarpur District.
		Kapurthala District is one of the smallest districts of Punjab in terms of both area and population.
		The total area of the district is 1633 kmÂ² (630.338 square miles) of which 909.09 kmÂ² (350.908 square miles) is in Kapurthala tehsil, 304.05 kmÂ² (117.363 square miles) in Phagwara tehsil and 451.0 kmÂ² (174.086 square miles) in Sultanpur Lodhi tehsil.
	www.izeez.com /articles/Kapurthala (469 words)

	Amritsar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The city is the administrative centre for the Amritsar district.
		The main spoken language in Amritsar is Punjabi.
		Amritsar derives from Sanskrit Amŗta-sarovar = "Nectar Lake"; in Hindu belief Amŗta (nectar) is a liquid that Hindu devas drank to keep them immortal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amritsar (475 words)

	Agrikhalsa .:: History of Amritsar ::.
		The 'Sarbrah', a nominee of the Deputy Commissioner of Amritsar mismanaged the affairs of the temple.
		It is Amritsar where the smoldering surge of Independence of our country burst into a full fledged "Flame of Liberty" in the form of Jallianwala Bagh massacre in which about two thousand people were killed.
		Long ago, the present city of Amritsar was dense forest with a pool in it.
	agrikhalsa.tripod.com /city.htm (1903 words)

	Amritsar
		AMRITSAR (31°38'N, 74°53'E)(originally called Ramdaspur) is the current principal holy city of the Sikhs and is the headquarters of the district (Amritsar) in the Punjab.
		Amritsar continued to enjoy its precedence as the holiest city of the Sikhs as well as the most important commercial and industrial centre in the northwest India even after the annexation of the Punjab to the British empire in 1849.
		It was a declaration in 1873 by four Sikh students of the Amritsar Mission School of their intention to embrace Christianity which led to the rise of a Sikh movement to promote rediscovery of the essentials of the teachings of the faith and education among the Sikh masses.
	www.sikhiwiki.org /index.php?title=Amritsar (4474 words)

	The Amritsar Massacre
		On April 10, in Amritsar, Kichloo and Satyapal were arrested and deported from the district by deputy commisioner Miles Irving, and when their followers tried to march to Irving's bungalow in the camp to demand the release of their leaders they were fired upon by British troops.
		It was a Sunday, and many neighboring peasants had come to Amritsar to celebrate a Hindu festival, gathering in the Bagh, which was a place for holding cattle fair and other festivities.
		Gandhi himself had taken a train to the Punjab early in April 1919 to address on of those rallies, but he was arrested at the border station and taken back to Bombay by orders of the tyrannical lieutenant governor of the Punjab, Sir Michael O'Dwyer.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /landow/post/india/history/colonial/massacre.html (628 words)

	Amritsar on Encyclopedia.com
		The first Amritsar massacre took place in the Jalianwala Bagh, an enclosed park, in Apr., 1919; hundreds of Indian nationalists were killed and thousands wounded when troops under British control fired upon them.
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		The center of the Sikh religion (see Sikhism), Amritsar was founded in 1577 by Ram Das, the fourth guru [Hindustani,=teacher], on land given by Akbar.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/Amritsar.asp (574 words)

	Massacre of Jalianwala Bagh, Amritsar
		One Miss Marcella Sherwood, manager of the City Mission School, who had been living in Amritsar district for 15 years working for the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, was attacked.
		ALLIANVALA BAGH MASSACRE, involved the killing of hundreds of unarmed, defenceless Indians by a senior British militry officer, took place on 13 April 1919 in the heart of Amritsar, the holiest city of the Sikhs, on a day sacred to them as the birth anniversary of the Khalsa.
		The honouring of Brigadier-General Dyer by the priests of Sri Darbar Sahib, Amritsar, led to the intensification of the demand for reforming management of Sikh shrines already being voiced by societies such as the Khalsa Diwan Majha and Central Majha Khalsa Diwan.
	www.sikh-history.com /sikhhist/events/jbagh.html (1365 words)

	The Harimandir: The Golden Temple: Gateway to Sikhism
		Bhai Des Raj, a Khatri of village Sur Singh, District Amritsar, known for his honesty and truthfulness, was put in charge of the finance of the project so that the building of the temple and the tank should be completed as per p1an.
		It seems that originally the site of Amritsar was a shamlat'(community land) lying between the village of Sultanwind, Tung, Gumtala and Gilwali, and later it was acquired by the Sikh Gurus either on payment or was received by them free of cost.
		It was the choice of the Gurus themselves, and the site of Amritsar was a revenue-free land.'Even the early name of the city, Chak Guru, bears testimony to the nature of thebasti (settlement) as detached or revenue-free.
	www.allaboutsikhs.com /gurudwaras/gt01.htm (3380 words)

	India - Catholic Church Local History and Ancestors Genealogy Research
		The Diocese of Jalandhar encompasses the civil districts of Amritsar, Faridkot, Ferozepore, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Ludhiana, Moga, Muktsar and Nawanshahar, in the Punjab and Chamba; Hamirpur, Kangra and Una in Himachal Pradesh.
		The Diocese of Bijnor encompasses the district of Bijnor, with the exception of the Dhampur division, and the hill districts of Pauri-Garhwal, Rudraprayag, Tehri, Chamoli, Uttarkashi and a portion of the district of Haridwar.
		The Diocese of Udaipur encompasses the districts of Udaipur, Rajasamand, Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Dungarpur and Banswara, in South Rajasthan, and Tehsil of Thandla (Jhabua district) in Madhya Pradesh.
	home.att.net /~Local_Catholic/Catholic-India.htm (6261 words)

	Welcome to Offical Web site of Punjab, India
		A major portion of an old haveli at Lalliany village (Kasur district in Pakistan), belonging to the ancestors of Mr Kirandip Singh Bhullar, Deputy Commissioner, Amritsar, has been found to be intact.
		District Kasur was formed in 1976 by detaching Kasur and Chunian tehsils from Lahore district.
		The district has Indian Territory towards south and east across the river Satluj, Lahore district towards north, Okara district on south-west and Sheikhupur district towards north-west.
	punjabgovt.nic.in /tenders/News2005/news497.htm (442 words)

	Initiatives Female Foeticide
		These districts are-Fatehgarh Sahib (754), Patiala (770), Kapurthala (775), Gurdaspur (775), Mans (779), Bathinda (779), Amritsar (783), Sangrur (784), Rupnagar (791) and Jalandhar (797).
		Districts like Ambala, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, sonepat and Rohtak are critical with less than 800 girls to 1000 boys.
		According to Census 2001, all the nine districts of Delhi have recorded a decline of fifty or above points.
	www.indiafemalefoeticide.org /ini.htm (1618 words)

	Gurdaspur District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It borders Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir, the Punjab districts of Amritsar and Hoshiarpur and the state of Himachal Pradesh.
		Gurdaspur District is a district in the state of Punjab, situated in the northwest part of India.
		This page was last modified 13:39, 24 October 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gurdaspur_District (62 words)

	Historical Sikh Events at Gateway to Sikhism:Karorasinghia Misl
		A Dhalival Jatt, Baghel Singh arose from the village of Jhabal, in Amritsar district, to become a formidable force in the cis-Sutlej region.
		Karora Singh confined his activities to the tract lying south of the Kangra hills in Hoshiarpur district, and had seized several important towns such as Hoshiarpur, Hariana and Sham Chaurasi before he died in 1761.
		Another Karorsinghia scion, Rai Singh, son of Mahtab Singh who had killed the notorious Masse Khan Ranghar, seized a number of villages in Samrala in the Ludhiana district after the Sikh conquest of Sirhind in 1764.
	allaboutsikhs.com /events/mkarorasingha.htm (771 words)

	Gateway to Sikhism Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947
		Thousands of such forced converts were seen after their evacuation by the military in Amritsar and other cities of the Punjab.
		Jullundur:- This district is now included in East Punjab.
		Qazi Ataullah Khan, Revenue Minister of the Frontier Province, in a statement threw a flood of light on the widespread organized and co-ordinated way in which the Muslim Leaguers were carrying on a parallel campaign of harassement and elimination of the minorities in the Punjab and the Frontier Province.
	www.allaboutsikhs.com /books/gst/chap-07.htm (2022 words)

	Marathwada Profile
		Other tourist attractions are the meteorite crater at Lonar, Aurangzeb's tomb at Khultabad, Guru Gobind Singhji Gurudwara at Nanded, which is the second most sacred pilgrimage centre for Sikhs after the Golden Temple at Amritsar, two of the 12 Jyotirlingas--- at Grushneshwar (Aurangabad district) and Parli-Vaijnath (Beed district).
		Marathwada is the region comprising the eight districts of (divisional headquarters) Jalna, Aurangabad, Parbhani, Hingoli, Nanded, Latur, Osmanabad and Beed.
		I belong to beed district of marathwada region.
	www.rediff.com /election/2004/oct/06maha1.htm (2022 words)

	Sikh History:Amritsar Massacre 1978
		It is clear that the authorities of the Amritsar district allowed the Nakali Nirankaris to do the procession in the Sikhs main city Amritsar on Vaisakhi.
		The message said that the followers of Nakali Nirankari Gurbachan Singh were holding a procession in Amritsar and were shouting slogans against the Satguru and shouting insults against the Sikh religion.
		The astonishing thing is that the gathering of the Nirankaris continued for 3 and a half hours after this bloody massacre.
	allaboutsikhs.com /events/akj.htm (1880 words)

	Massacre of Jalianwala Bagh, Amritsar
		One Miss Marcella Sherwood, manager of the City Mission School, who had been living in Amritsar district for 15 years working for the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, was attacked.
		ALLIANVALA BAGH MASSACRE, involved the killing of hundreds of unarmed, defenceless Indians by a senior British militry officer, took place on 13 April 1919 in the heart of Amritsar, the holiest city of the Sikhs, on a day sacred to them as the birth anniversary of the Khalsa.
		The honouring of Brigadier-General Dyer by the priests of Sri Darbar Sahib, Amritsar, led to the intensification of the demand for reforming management of Sikh shrines already being voiced by societies such as the Khalsa Diwan Majha and Central Majha Khalsa Diwan.
	www.sikh-history.com /sikhhist/events/jbagh.html (1365 words)

	The Amritsar Massacre
		On April 10, in Amritsar, Kichloo and Satyapal were arrested and deported from the district by deputy commisioner Miles Irving, and when their followers tried to march to Irving's bungalow in the camp to demand the release of their leaders they were fired upon by British troops.
		It was a Sunday, and many neighboring peasants had come to Amritsar to celebrate a Hindu festival, gathering in the Bagh, which was a place for holding cattle fair and other festivities.
		The Jallianwallah Bagh massacre turned million of patient and moderate Indians from loyal supporters of the British raj into national revolutionaries who would never again trust to British "fair play" or cooperate with a government capable of defending such action.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /landow/post/india/history/colonial/massacre.html (628 words)

	Kartar Singh Sarabha
		hen the Ghadr party was founded in mid-1913 with Sohan Singh, a Sikh peasent from Bhakna village in Amritsar district, as president and Hardyal as secretary, Kartar Singh stopped his university work, moved in with Har Dyal and became his helpmate in running the revolutionary newspaper Ghadr (revolt).
		artar Singh Sarabha, a Ghadr revolutionary was born in 1886 in the village of Sarabha, in Ludhiana district of the Punjab in the house of Mangal Singh, a well-to-do farmer (Jutt).
		The were seized on 2 March 1915 at Wilsonpur, in Shahpur district, where they had gone to incite the troops of the 22nd Cavalry.
	www.sikh-history.com /sikhhist/personalities/sarabha.html (681 words)

	WEST PUNJAB ABLAZE
		Sialkot is a district bordering on Lahore and Amritsar beside Gurdaspur and Gujranwala.
		Muzaffargarh is an outlying district to the west of Multan.
		In this district, on the 1st September the Deputy Commissioner in an open meeting declared it to be his policy to turn out all Hindus and Sikhs from the district.
	voi.org /books/mla/ch10.htm (13079 words)

	tribuneindia... Punjab
		It was also felt that it was time district conferences' programme was chalked out and the organisational wings operationalised to inject new enthusiasm and objectivity to rebutt the growing criticism of the government, which is being described as a non-performing outfit.
		The common refrain at the meeting, attended by 25 district presidents, was in respect of the bad shape of roads, lack of sewerage system in villages resulting in occasional flooding of streets and missing primary school buildings.
		We have held big rallies in Muktsar, Sangrur, Bathinda and in several other towns of Majha; Amritsar and Gurdaspur.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1998/98oct03/punjab.htm (13079 words)

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		A district with densely populated urban fringe of the metropolitan city of Calcutta with already built up city of Salt Lake and the up-coming New City at Rajarhat on one side and the remote riverine villages in the Sundarbans on the other has made the district rich in all activities.
		The city lies just north of the Kasai River and is an agricultural-trade centre on the Grand Trunk Road from Calcutta to Amritsar.
		The district of 24 Parganas covers an ancient area.
	www.taj-mahal.biz /destinations/westbengal/westbengal-travel-guide.html (13079 words)

	www.kapurthalaonline.com...Taking City to Cyber Age...Location
		In Western side of district Beas river is flowing after which Amritsar District is situated.
		In Northern direction Gurdaspur and in North-Eastern direction Hoshiarpur District is situated.
		In east direction of Phagwara District Hoshiarpur lies and on all other directions District Jalandhar lies.
	www.kapurthalaonline.com /location/location.shtml (132 words)

	WELCOME TO NEWS BRIEFS FROM PUNJAB - A GREAT STATE OF INDIA
		Hoshiarpur: In a bizarre incident, a Naib Subedar killed her mother at Talwandi Dadian village of Hoshiarpur district Friday evening.
		The police has sounded a red alert in the district and raids were being conducted at the suspected hideouts of the robbers.
		Hoshiarpur: Simranjit Singh Mann, Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) chief, on Thursday condemned the killing of two persons by Excise Department in an alleged encounter.
	www.datelinepunjab.com /html/nb.html (11876 words)

	News Headings
		AMRITSAR: The 14th Kargil martyr from the district, Naik Sucha Singh, of 14 Light Infantry was cremated at his native village, Kaleka, near Baba Bakala, with full military honours today.
		JALANDHAR: Havildar Baldev Raj of 7 Dogra Regiment, a resident of Benewal village in Hoshiarpur district died in a mine blast in Chhamjorian sector (Jammu and Kashmir).
		BHIWANI: The body of Havildar Rajbir Singh was brought to his native village Mohri in Dadri subdivision of the district on Thursday.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99jul18/head4.htm (503 words)

	Diagnosing Micronutrient Related Constraints to Productivity in Amritsar, Hoshiarpur and Ludhiana District
		To assess the status of micronutrients in the soils of Amritsar, Hoshiarpur and Ludhiana districts.
		Collection of water samples, from enough number of representative sites in all the three districts (testing of water samples will be done by a separate group).
		To study the relationship between micronutrient content of soil and plants.
	www.tifac.com /itsap/micronutrient1.htm (227 words)

	PROFORMA FOR FURNISHING DETAILS
		Youth Hostel Pipli is located in district Kurukshetra on the Grand Trunk Road between New Delhi and Amritsar.
		Religious fairs are held around the sacred pools of Kurukshetra on the occasion of solar eclipse.
		The Kurukshetra University here has been specially set up for promotion of Sanskrit language, literature and ancient Hindu Philosophy.
	yas.nic.in /yasroot/hostel/youthhostel/yhhr.htm (279 words)

	DAMS, RIVERS AND PEOPLE : MAY 1999 UPDATE
		In central Punjab, comprising of Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar districts, where rice is the predominant kharif crop, the water table is declining at the rate of 23 cm per year.
		The district of Badin is likely to face massive salinity as the tidal link and the Left Bank Outflow Drainage will carry the saline water without any provision of increasing their capacity or strength.
		In a development that is pregnant with far reaching possibilities, the people of Alwar district in Rajasthan, who helped rebirth of a dried Arvari river through local rainwater harvesting schemes, have formed their own river parliament for management of the river.
	www.narmada.org /sandrp/may99update.html (279 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Punjab
		Kulwant Singh, alias Kanta, a resident of Ajnala in Amritsar district, who was the kingpin, was arrested by the Phagwara police from near Gandma village here today and a country made pistol with two live cartridges was seized from him.
		The Patiala court, had earlier, dismissed Bibi’s plea as she is facing a trial in the case relating to the death of her daughter.
		The high court had yesterday allowed her to visit the USA for two weeks, starting from September 16, to study the structure of top universities there to set up Shri Guru Granth Sahib World University at Fatehgarh Sahib.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050917/punjab1.htm (279 words)

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