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unusual facts about Buttar Kalan, Gurdaspur



Baghel Singh

When Sukarchakia Misl (of Maharaja Ranjit Singh) won the territory of Gujranwala, and the areas of Ravi and Chenab Doab and Ramgarhia Misl won the areas of Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Bhangi around Lahore, and Kasur, Karor Singhia Misl declared their ownership of territories now including Ambala, Karnal, Hissar, Rohtak, Chandigarh, etc.

Bhai Fauja Singh

After the formation of Pakistan they moved to the village of Gazneepur, which is 6 miles on the Gurdaspur Dera Baba Nanak road.

Buttar Kalan, Gurdaspur

Punjabi is the primary language of the village, predominated by the Jatt people of Buttar clan.

Gurdwara

Sri Hargobindpur, established by the fifth Sikh Guru, Guru Arjan Dev Ji, near river Beas, Gurdaspur District, Punjab (India).

Heer clan

Majha is a historical region of the Punjab comprising the modern districts of Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Tarn Taran in the Indian State of Punjab and the districts of Lahore and Kasur in the Pakistani province of Punjab.

Khaak aur Khoon

On June 3, 1947, Lord Mountbatton announced that district of Gurdaspur was going to be aligned with Pakistan.

Mahton

Similarly from Sailkot came Mian Mota, who first settled in Jaswan-Kopti near Gurdaspur and then in Rajpur near Hoshiarpur, whence he founded Narur in Kapurthala, naming it after the elder of his two sons Nar Chand and Zahir Chand .

Mukhbain Singh

Passed matriculation from Guru Nanak Khalsa High School Batala, Gurdaspur, Punjab (India).

Rashid Minhas

He was born to a family that had settled in Gurdaspur from Jammu and Kashmir and belonged from a Minhas clan predominantly found in Northern Punjab and in Kashmir regions.


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