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	About District
		Guru Nanak, born in 1469 in the Lahore district, married in 1485 with Sulkhani, daughter of Mool Chand, a Khatri of Pakhoke (Dera Baba Nanak) in the Batala Tehsil.
		The Chaki Khad is the chief tributary of the Beas in Gurdaspur district.
		The salt petre occurs in the district at the villages of Thikriwala, Lamin and Pandori in thesil Gurdaspur and Dhawan, Chataurgarh and Badowal in tehsil Batala.
	gurdaspur.nic.in /html/profile.htm (2381 words)

	Major Towns of the District
		Gurdaspur Tehsil, a greater portion of Batala Tehsil and 181 villages of Pathankot Tehsil were included in the Adinanagar district.
		The descendants of Nawal Rai settled in Gurdaspur Nawal Rai’s son Baba Deep Chand was a contemporary of Guru Gobind Singh Ji.
		The district of Adinanagar was renamed as Gurdaspur.
	gurdaspur.nic.in /html/towns.htm (2351 words)

	India Information >> Great Cities of Punjab
		Batala, the largest town of Gurdaspur district was founded about the year 1465 AD, during the reign of Behlol Lodhi, by Raja Ram Deo, a Bhati Rajput, on a piece of land granted to him by Tatar Khan, Governor of Lahore.
		It is 13 miles North-West of Batala and 22 miles from the district headquarter town Gurdaspur on the border of Pakistan.
		Dhariwal, a small town of District Gurdaspur was known as Kacha Dhariwal in the begining of the twentieth century.
	www.whereincity.com /india/punjab/other-cities.php (5275 words)

	Inretrospect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In Gurdaspur district, two contiguous Muslim majority tahsils, or sub-districts, Gurdaspur and Batala, were given to India along with Pathankot tahsil to provide a link between India and the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
		Gurdaspur district was contiguous to the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
		In refuting the allegation that Mountbatten persuaded Radcliffe to divide Gurdaspur in such a manner that India would obtain a land route to Kashmir, Hodson writes that the Kashmir frontier 'was not in anybody's mind at the time'.
	www.weeklyholiday.net /150202/inret.html (3027 words)

	Fazal Din Group
		In 1860, Sheikh Noor Elahi who came from an agrarian background in Gurdaspur established a general store in Dalhousie which was a hill station on the border of Kashmir and Punjab in undivided India and was especially popular with the Muslims of India.
		Gurdaspur and its environs, Mumtaz was active in Lahore and Delhi.
		In 1947, when it was largely expected that Gurdaspur and Dalhousie would form a part of Pakistan and the flag of Pakistan was hoisted allover Dalhousie and Gurdaspur, it came as a rude shock when the rad cliff award subsequently awarded these areas to India.
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	Rediff On The NeT: Gurdaspur sees stars, thanks to Vinod Khanna
		The BJP party orator, uplifted by the sight of an audience he could never have dreamt of, is in his elements as he launches into as excoriating attack on Bhinder.
		A reminder that Gurdaspur is lucky to have Khanna as their candidate.
		For the people of Gurdaspur, inhabiting a world of numbing ordinariness, a vote for Khanna is a vote for a sea-change in their world.
	www.rediff.com /news/1998/feb/16gurd.htm (1232 words)

	Gurdaspur city of Punjab - India
		Gurdaspur was founded by Guriya Ji in the beginning of 17th century.
		It is an old Dera (monastery) of Mahants, the management of which has passed from Guru (preceptor) to his chela (disciple) for generations.
		Kalanaur, a historical town of Gurdaspur District, is situated towards the west of Gurdaspur at a distance of 25 Kilometres.
	punjab.bharatheritage.in /gurdaspur.htm (947 words)

	90-yr-old jail inmate dies in Gurdaspur- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		GURDASPUR: A convict lodged in Gurdaspur central jail died on Saturday because of alleged neglect by the jail doctor.
		While the jail authorities maintained that Harbhajan Singh (90), who had taken ill for the last few days, was rushed to Gurdaspur civil hospital after his condition turned critical, the doctor on emergency duty at civil hospital, Dr Rajesh Lakhanpal said he was brought dead and was not admitted in the hospital.
		She said while he died on Saturday morning in the jail, the jail authorities, in order to save their skin, immediately rushed his body to Gurdaspur civil hospital where the hospital authorities refused to admit him as he was brought dead.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1696578.cms (282 words)

	Punjab Cities: GURDASPUR
		Gurdaspur, which is a border district of the state, has played a significant role in the defense of the country.
		west of Gurdaspur on the border of Pakistan.
		in the south of Gurdaspur was founded by the 5th Guru Arjan Dev.
	www.allaboutsikhs.com /culture/gurdaspur.htm (436 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		After sensing the people’s mood, the authorities, however, relented and tried to save the situation in the evening by allowing Mr Khanna and 500 of his supporters to move towards the bridge, which according to Mr Khanna was “dedicated” to the people by him and other BJP leaders.
		At least six nakas were put up between Shalla township and Naushehra Pattan in Gurdaspur district, while the same number of nakas could be seen on a 9-km-long stretch between Mukerian and the bridge on the Hoshiarpur side.
		He said the Gurdaspur firing was not an isolated incident but was symbolic of the way Capt Amarinder Singh had been trying to run the government.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20030821/main1.htm (1093 words)

	Gurdaspur District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gurdaspur District is a district in the state of Punjab, situated in the northwest part of India.
		Akbar is said to have been enthroned in a garden near Kalanaur, a historically important town in the district.
		He did get elected and Gurdaspur was nowhere near Paris but he did beautified fish pond (a local park) and made a bridge which was in demand for many years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gurdaspur_District (211 words)

	Gurdaspur ahead on Day One
		THE gymnasts from Gurdaspur dominated the proceedings at the end of the first day as they came first in six events during the 22nd Sub-Junior and 46th Junior Punjab State Gymnastics Championship that got underway at the Shaheed Kanshi Ram Memorial College of Physical Education, Bhagoo Majra.
		It was Gurdaspur all the way in the girls’ sub-junior category as they took top honours in nearly all the categories on Friday.
		Gurdaspur also lead in the u-10 category with 81.40 points followed by Mohali with 26.20 and Sangrur with 20.60 points.
	cities.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=188331 (274 words)

	3 dead, 32 hurt in Gurdaspur bus accident : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Three persons, including a woman, were killed and 32 injured when a private bus carrying them overturned near Gurdaspur on Wednesday.
		The bus was coming to Gurdaspur from Pandori Mahanta and its driver lost control while overtaking a truck and plunged into a roadside ditch, police said.
		Some of them have been admitted to the civil hospital in Gurdaspur.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1833388,000900010001.htm (129 words)

	Bhinder Cong's favourite for Gurdaspur LS polls- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		PATHANKOT: With all the Gurdaspur district municipal councillors in the Congress kitty, former Union minister and senior party leader Sukhbans Kaur Bhinder has emerged as a supremo.
		Political observers said since all Bhinder loyalists had been elected as president in Gurdaspur, Sujanpur, Dinanagar, Dhariwal, Dera Baba Nanak, Batala, Fatehgarh Churian, Sri Hargobingpur besides Pathankot, she had emerged as a supreme leader after the MC elections.
		She was earlier defeated twice by BJPâs Vinod Khanna in the elections for Gurdaspur LS seat.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=42798584 (386 words)

	LoC-Line of Control
		Just as Ferozepur and Zira had gone to India despite their Muslim majority, so three out of the four tehsils of the Gurdaspur district north of Amritsar were also awarded to India, despite the fact that two of them had significant Muslim majorities.
		In this case the Ôother factorÕ was that only with Gurdaspur in India would there be a direct road between India and the land of NehruÕs birth.
		The Mahraja of Kashmir, Hari Singh Dogra, was initially trying to preserve the integrity of Kashmir, and therefore did not accede to either dominion.
	www.defencejournal.com /sept99/loc.htm (2902 words)

	SikhUnderground - Often Duplicated, Never Imitated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bhai Fauja Singh was born on 17th May 1936 in District Gurdaspur.
		After the formation of Pakistan they moved to the village of Gazneepur, which is 6 miles on the Gurdaspur Dera Baba Nanak road.
		During his childhood days Fauja Singh always used to be the leader of boys of a similar age in his village.
	www.saintsoldiers.net /ss/?p=faj (513 words)

	Sikh Global News - SikhSangat News (SSNews - SikhSangat.org)
		She later was taken to civil hospital Gurdaspur where she delivered a dead baby.
		Talking to media at the Civil Hospital Gurdaspur, Simranjeet Kaur alleged that cops beat her up mercilessly, when she tried to save her father-in-law and brother-in-law.
		The Gurdaspur police has registered a case under Sections 316, 307, 452 and 34 of the IPC against the constable.
	www.sikhsangat.org /publish/article_1155.shtml (449 words)

	The Sikh Coalition
		December 12, 1999: Joginder Singh, a resident of village Kaler Kalan, District Gurdaspur died in Central Jail, Gurdaspur.
		October 31, 2000: Gora Masih, son of Sohni Masih, a resident of village Sanehia in Batala District and loged in Central Jail, Gurdaspur died due to TB.
		November 1, 2000: Surinder Singh, an undertrial lodged in Central Jail, Gurdaspur, died in the jail.
	www.sikhcoalition.org /HumanRights7.asp (549 words)

	Welcome to Offical Web site of Punjab, India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Gurdaspur police has reopened the inquiry into the multi-crore UBDC scam after government directions.
		The SSP, Gurdaspur, Mr Ishwar Singh, admitted that instructions had been received from the government regarding proceeding with the investigation in the UBDC scam.
		The inquiry into the case was initially being conducted by an IPS officer then posted at Gurdaspur.
	punjabgovt.nic.in /tenders/News2005/NEWS14.htm (506 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		Despite a ban on their voting, Sehajdharis voted openly during the elections for the Dhariwal and Gurdaspur (general) SGPC constituencies here today.
		Shiromani Akali Dal leaders, including former minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan, who is contesting the elections from the Gurdaspur (general) constituency against Panthic Morcha candidate Amrik Singh, alleged large-scale bogus voting by policemen in plain clothes.
		Panic in the SAD camp was obvious from the fact that though two polling observers, Mr SC Jain (Dhariwal) and Mr RP Chander (Gurdaspur), were in the field, the secretary, Gurdwara Election Commission (GEC), Mr Gurdev Singh, also ensured his presence during polling.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2004/20041108/main1.htm (514 words)

	Bhagat Namdev ji
		Vitthala of Pandharpur was now the object of his devotion and he spent much of his time in worship and kirtan, chanting mostly verses of his own composition.
		In the company of Jnanadeva and other saints, he roamed about the country and later came to the Punjab where he is said to have lived for more than twenty years at Ghuman, in Gurdaspur district, where a temple in the form of samadh still preserves his memory.
		This temple was constructed by Sardar Jassa Singh Ramgarhia and the tank by its side was got repaired by Rani Sada Kaur, mother-in-law of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
	www.sikh-history.com /sikhhist/events/namdev.html (1013 words)

	gurdaspur - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		We found 2 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word gurdaspur:
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		GURDASPUR : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=gurdaspur (78 words)

	Amazon.com: Gurdaspur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sugar and the sugarcane in the Gurdaspur district, (Pusa.
		and whose shrine is at Gurdaspur, in India.
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	DIGEST OF CUSTOMARY LAW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		1911 – Sidhu Muhammadan Jats of villages Pakhowali Gurdaspur Tahsil.
		521 = Hundal Jats of Gurdaspur District Completely abandoned the rule of chundavand by 1942 and adopted the rule of pagvand in matters of succession.
		Novermber 1923) – Muhammadan Jats of village Bhattian, Tahsil Gurdaspur.
	punjabrevenue.nic.in /cust20.htm (4337 words)

	Welcome to Offical Web site of Punjab, India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tug of war for the chairmanship of Pathankot and Gurdaspur improvement trusts is over.
		With this Mr AK Kaushal Chairman of the Gurdaspur Improvement Trust and Mr Rajbir Chairman of the Pathankot Improvement Trust would continue to hold offices.
		Mr A.K. Kaushal is known to be close to Mr Khushal Behl, former Minister for Education and MLA from Gurdaspur.
	punjabgovt.nic.in /TENDERS/News2005/news388.htm (160 words)

	The drama king Gurdaspur loves : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The first time Vinod Khanna campaigned in Gurdaspur, he kissed a girl on stage.
		After his supporters told him this wasn’t done, he switched to hugging: a gesture of affection for Mumbaikars but again, taboo in conservative Punjab.
		Waist-deep in water, a semi-clad Khanna took a fistful of water and said, “Main paani ki kasam khata hoon…” If that wasn’t enough, he took a hot air balloon all the way from Delhi to Gurdaspur and floated it to thank the people for making him MP.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1567821,0035.htm (355 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: BJP's star move: Vinod Khanna from Gurdaspur
		In the eleventh Lok Sabha, the Gurdaspur seat was represented by the Congress's veteran parliamentarian Sukhbans Kaur, who defeated her BJP rival by more than 65,000 votes.
		Khanna dispelled the notion that his fellow actor turned politician Shatrughan Sinha, who is also a BJP MP, had anything to do with his decision to join the party.
		Though he did not elaborate on what his agenda to the voters of Gurdaspur would be, like a loyal soldier, he states, "My agenda is the party's agenda."
	www.rediff.com /news/1998/jan/22vinod.htm (559 words)

	The Hindu : Rural Sikhs apprehensive of RSS attitude to Christians
		During a tour of villages and remote towns of Amritsar and Gurdaspur districts, it could be derived that ordinary villagers were never averse to the so-called integrative approach of the RSS, if it was limited to forging an alliance at the community level.
		She, however, decided to dissociate herself from its activities, when she went through the literature, distributed by the RSS and the Sangat.
		Kanwarpal Singh, who for the last 20 years, has been imparting training in ``Gatka'', a traditional martial arts form of the Sikhs in Dhariwal town of Gurdaspur, where there is an impressive Christian presence, was excited when about two years ago, the RSS approached him to train their cadre in the skill.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/06/16/stories/0216000e.htm (595 words)

	Bibi Nanaki
		And so it was that his father gave up, and so, at the age of fifteen, Nanak was sent to live with his sister, and to work for her husband.
		It was Jai Ram who arranged the wedding of Nanak to Sulakhani, daughter of Moolchand Chand Khatri and Mata Chando of the village Pakhoke, District Gurdaspur.
		Herself childless, Bibi Nanaki adored her brother, Nanak, and felt herself blessed when he came to join the Nawab's service and put up with her at Sultanpur.
	www.sikhiwiki.org /index.php?title=Bibi_Nanaki&printable=yes (456 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
		Pathankot (Gurdaspur), May 2: Six years ago, Vinod Khanna pledged to turn Gurdaspur into Paris if he was elected.
		“I had only compared Gurdaspur with the destruction in Paris during World War II, when major parts had to be rebuilt.
		I have done a lot for my people here,” Khanna says at Syal House, his sprawling office- cum-residence, as hassled wife Kavita scurries around making arrangements for the rallies.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040503/asp/nation/story_3199743.asp (296 words)

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