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	Gurdaspur - LoveToKnow 1911
		GURDASPUR, a town and district of British India, in the Lahore division of the Punjab.
		It is bounded on the N. by the native states of Kashmir and Chamba, on the E. by Kangra district and the river Beas, on the S.W. by Amritsar district, and on the W. by Sialkot, and occupies the submontane portion of the Bari Doab, or tract between the Beas and the Ravi.
		Pathankot and the neighbouring villages in the plain, together with the whole hill portion of the district, formed part of the area ceded by the Sikhs to the British after the first Sikh war in 1846.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Gurdaspur (453 words)

	Gurdaspur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gurdaspur is a city in the state of Punjab, situated in the northwest part of India.
		It is located in the center of and is the administrative head of Gurdaspur District.
		Chamba, on the E. by Kangra district and the Beas River, on the S.\V. by Amritsar district, and on the \V. by Sialkot, and occupies the submontane portion of the Ban Doab, or tract between the Beas and the Ravi River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gurdaspur (486 words)

	Amritsar - LoveToKnow 1911
		Finally the city and surrounding district fell under the sway of Ranjit Singh at Lahore, and passed with the rest of the Punjab into the possession of the British after the second Sikh war.
		The district is bounded on the N.W. by the river Ravi, on the S.E. by the river Beas, on the N.E. by the district of Gurdaspur, and on the S.W. by the district of Lahore.
		The only stream passing through the district is the Kirni or Saki, which takes its rise in a marsh in the Gurdaspur district, and after traversing part of the district empties itself into the Ravi.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Amritsar (576 words)

	The Ghadr Dicrectory
		Bhag Singh, - Canadien Attar Singh, Jat, of Uppal Bhopa P.S. Nakodar, District Jullundur.
		Mahtab Singh, Pracharak, alias Mahtab Singh, alias Sundar Singh, alias Karora Singh, son of Dyal Singh, of Kishenpura, P.S. Rupar, District Ambala.
		Sham Singh, alias Charan Singh, alias Carmen Singh.
	www.sikhpioneers.org /theGhadrDirectory.html (20032 words)

	Kangra The Land of Temples
		Kangra district is having a topography that some of the parts like Milwan at 400 m altitude, while area of Bara Bhangal are at the altitude of 5500 m.
		District Kangra, which comprises of area within three agro-ecological zones has further been divided into 6 agro-ecological situations on the bases of variations in altitude, topography, precipitation (rainfall and snow), thermal regime, soil type, irrigation facilities and land use.
		The road network is well served in the district by connecting various markets of the district as well as adjoining district of the State and abroad.
	www.manage.gov.in /ATMAKANGRA/kangra.htm (526 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.
		Muslim population of the district migrated to Pakistan and refugees, the Hindus and the Sikhs of Sialkot and Tehsil Shakargarh migrated to Gurdaspur after crossing the Ravi bridge.
	gurdaspur.nic.in /html/towns.htm (2351 words)

	Hoshiarpur
		Hoshiarpur district is located in the north-east part of the State of Punjab, India.
		The district is submountainous and stretches of river Beas in the north-west.
		It shares common boundaries with Kangra and Una districts of Himachal Pardesh in the north east, Jalandhar and Kapurthala districts (interspersed) in south-west and Gurdaspur district in the north-west.
	www.sikhiwiki.org /index.php?title=Hoshiarpur (644 words)

	India Information >> Great Cities of Punjab
		Gurdaspur, which is a border district of the state, has played a significant role in the defense of the country.
		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.
		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: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		In the Jullundur district, the Muslim majority tahsils, Nakodar and Jullundur, which lie in the angle of the Sutlej and Beas rivers, were assigned to India.
		Gurdaspur district was contiguous to the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
	www.weeklyholiday.net /150202/inret.html (3027 words)

	Gurdaspur District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gurdaspur District is a district in the state of Punjab, situated in the northwest part of India.
		The district of Gurdaspur in the Punjab had on the basis of 1941 census an overall Muslim majority of 51%.
		Gurdaspur straddled a major river of the Punjab, the Ravi, with tehsil Shakargarh on the west bank of the river and the rest three tehsils on the east bank.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gurdaspur_District (1745 words)

	Rediff On The NeT Elections '98: Vinod Khanna carries the battle into Sukhbans Kaur's camp
		In Gurdaspur district, which borders Jammu and Kashmir and, in one segment Pakistan, the BJP-SAD combine is fighting what it calls a now-or-never battle.
		His day on the 13th starts with a visit to the district court where the bar association is giving him a public endorsement (shewdly, Vinod's managers have got the blocs -- lawyers, the local lorry drivers union, ex-servicemen's association, Christian forum, et all -- to publicly endorse him).
		A native of Gurdaspur, Gurbachan -- now settled in Bombay where he and his brother run a gym frequented by Anil Kapoor among stars -- is instantly recognised and mobbed wherever he goes.
	www.rediff.com /news/1998/feb/14vinod.htm (1718 words)

	Tribuneindia...Regional Briefs
		Besides this, pressure horns were removed from 267 heavy vehicles and 261 drivers of various types of vehicles were examined for various eye ailments on the spot.
		Mr P.S. Sidhu, district police chief, said that 69 police officers and jawans of the district had laid down their lives while fighting terrorism in the state.
		Harjeet Singh of Vaidwala village in the district was arrested under the NDPS Act and the police seized 1 kg poppy husk from him.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99jan12/region.htm (1950 words)

	Rediff On The NeT Business News: Paddy disease destroys crop, spreads panic in Punjab
		The agricultural experts are still probing in the dark about this mysterious epidemic first noticed in Gurdaspur district two years back even as the farmers now refer to it as ''jaundice''.
		State agriculture director A S Randhawa, who toured the afflicted areas yesterday, said that 30,000 hectares of paddy in Gurdaspur district and 1,200 hectares in Amritsar district had been affected by this mysterious disease.
		Dr Singh said the disease was a matter of concern as the affected areas are in the basmati producing belt of the country.
	www.rediff.com /business/1998/sep/15paddy.htm (436 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Ludhiana Stories
		SSP (Gurdaspur) Varinder Kumar expressed surprise over a query by TNS over the progress in the case and said no team from his district had gone to the Ludhiana Central Jail.
		Sources in the district administration said while the fate of all houses would be decided at the government level, the district administration has ordered the razing of all fresh constructions undertaken after a two-month-old ban on such activity promulgated by the District Magistrate.
		The Kullewal land scandal is one of the biggest ever scam in the district where around 100 acres of land originally belonging to the provincial government was sold off by private persons allegedly in connivance with some revenue officials.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20021110/ldh1.htm (2830 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)

	Further Work
		His inquiries into the religious scriptures of the Sikhs led him to the conclusion that the founder of Sikhism had not only come under the influence of Muslim Sufis, but that he was in fact a Muslim, though the movement started by him took a different turn owing to political reasons.
		In 1897, he had to appear in the court of the District Magistrate of Gurdaspur to answer the charge of abetment of murder, brought forward by Dr. Henry Martyn Clarke of the Church Missionary Society.
		In the next year, he had again to go several times to Gurdaspur and to Pathankot to answer a charge of breach of the peace, which, it was alleged by the Police, he had threatened by the publication of certain prophecies.
	aaiil.info /mga/further.htm (2809 words)

	DIGEST OF CUSTOMARY LAW
		1911 – Sidhu Muhammadan Jats of villages Pakhowali Gurdaspur Tahsil.
		Novermber 1923) – Muhammadan Jats of village Bhattian, Tahsil Gurdaspur.
		“In 45 P. 1890, it was held that among the Naru Rajputs of the Hoshiarpur District the rule of pagvand prevails, but this was prior to adjustment of the question of onus by the Full Bench decision in 4 P. 1915 – Malkotra Rajputs of village Panjawar, Una Tahsil.
	punjabrevenue.nic.in /cust20.htm (4337 words)

	E-Governance projects in District Gurdaspur
		A notable achievement of the Gurdaspur District Centre is the creation of a Village Directory.
		District Court Information System, Pay Roll and other software implanted for the courts of District and Sessions Judge.
		Various kinds of reports including individual call letters for interview were prepared as per desires of district administration for conducting interview in a proper and scheduled manner.
	gurdaspur.nic.in /html/egovernance.htm (544 words)

	NRIs urged to set up industrial units
		GURDASPUR, Nov 24: In the first meeting of the NRIs and members of their families from Gurdaspur district, the local unit of the NRI Sabha, Punjab, was formed at Panchayat Bhawan here today.
		He said that with the formation of the Gurdaspur unit of the NRI Sabha, the number of such units had risen to six.
		He said that a bridge was built by a prominent NRI on a cho, at a cost of Rs 37 lakh, in Hoshiarpur district.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19981125/32951334.html (328 words)

	About District : Chamba
		hamba is bounded on north-west by Jammu and Kashmir, on the north-east and east by Ladakh area of Jammu and Kashmir state and Lahaul and Bara-Bangal area of Himachal Pradesh, on the south-east and south by the District Kangra of Himachal Pradesh and Gurdaspur District of the Punjab.
		The Chamba District is situated between north latitude 32° 11΄ 30″ and 33° 13΄ 6″ and east longitude 75°49 and 77° 3΄ 30″, with an estimated area of 6528 square Kilometers and is surrounded on all sides by lofty hill ranges.
		District Chamba; Latitudinal range 32°02´ to 32°04´ N; Longitudinal range 76°01´ to 76°06´E; Nearest Town Dalhousie (06 km); Nearest railhead Pathankot (86 km).
	www.indianngos.com /districts/chamba_about.htm (1097 words)

	SikhUnderground - Often Duplicated, Never Imitated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	Wanted: More doctors in Gurdaspur district- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Even civil hospitals at the urban centers like Pathankot, Batala and Gurdaspur are having several vacancies of doctors for a long time now, said sources.
		Talking to TNN, Gurdaspur CMO Dr Naranjan Singh Suman said that after the VB raids recently and the suspensions of several officials, including doctors being chargesheeted for private practice practice, fewer doctors were found absent from their duties.
		Meanwhile, residents of this border district live in perpetual dread of diseases; many fear an outbreak of an epidemic like gastroenteritis could lead to mass deaths due to understaffed hospitals and dispensaries.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=47700129 (401 words)

	lahore3
		at Lahore, 1878), daughter of Chaudhri Sujan, an Uthwal Jat, of Mala, Gurdaspur district.
		June 1839), daughter of Chaudhri Ram, a Saleria Rajput, of Atalgarh, Gurdaspur district.
		Said to be the son of a Muslim slave girl in the household of Mai Nakkain, by an attendant in the zenana.
	www.4dw.net /royalark/India4/lahore3.htm (1268 words)

	Penury in the bread basket \| Hard News
		With the exception of villages in districts along the Grand Truck Road where industrial activity has developed, signs of acute economic depression are visible throughout rural Punjab.
		ex-armyman Subedar Tara Deol, a farmer of Harkhonwal village in Gurdaspur district.
		We have over-exploited it and the rampant use of chemicals is destroying it further.
	www.hardnewsmedia.com /portal/2006/04/419 (1390 words)

	The Nation
		Ashok was jubilant: he was returning home after a gap of seven years, all of these spent in the dank confines of a Pakistani jail.
		A resident of Kang village in Gurdaspur district, Ashok had been recruited to spy in Pakistan.
		Some villages, like Dadwan and Kang in Gurdaspur district, have earned the sobriquet of Spy Villages, for providing a regular supply of recruits to inhabit the world of intelligence agencies - RAW, the military intelligence, the BSF et al.
	www.nation.com.pk /daily/sep-2005/7/index12.php (562 words)

	Lodhinangal leaves Congress to join SAD
		In a major set back to the ruling Congress, popular leader from Gurdaspur district, Mr Lakhbir Singh Lodhinangal today joined the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD).
		His entry into the SAD will improve the prospects of the party in the Batala sub-division of Gurdaspur district.
		The SAD is expected to field him from the Qadian constiteuncy in the Assembly elections to be held in February next year.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/India/20061008/473453.html (154 words)

	The Nation
		The third route, a dirt track, passed through the Muslim dominated district of Gurdaspur in the Punjab, providing a minor link to Srinagar through the Pathankot railhead.
		When the Award was announced, its most controversial decision dealt with awarding the Gurdaspur District to India.
		There is overwhelming evidence to suggest that Mountbatten prevailed upon Radcliffe to configure the Award in line with the conceived plan for subsequent occupation of Kashmir.
	www.nation.com.pk /daily/oct-2006/24/columns3.php (980 words)

	Concise history of the Kashmir Conflict
		If these sub districts were awarded to Pakistan, the accession of the State of Jammu and Kashmir to Pakistan would have been inevitable.
		Therefore, one may conclude that the present situation in Kashmir is due to the unfair awarding of Batala and Gurdaspur to India by the British.
		They were annoyed by the unfair awarding of Batala and Gurdaspur, and believed that Kashmir should be a part of Pakistan.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~hhkhan/history.html (2358 words)

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