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3 unusual facts about Hoshiarpur


Beas River

On meeting the Sivalik Hills in Hoshiarpur, the river sweeps sharply northward forming boundary between that district and Kangra District.

Chaudhry Muhammad Sharif

At the time of partition of India, he was a student in the Government College Hoshiarpur.

Singh Krora Misl

Karora Singh confined his activities to the tract lying south of the Karigra hills in Hoshiarpur district, and had seized several important towns such as Hoshiarpur, Hariana and Sham Chaurasi before he died in 1761.


Amrinder Singh

Amrinder took up the game of football at a young age but did not play consistently till the age of 15 when he joined his schools government ran academy, Sports Wing Academy in Paldi, Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India.

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 .

Panjab University Swami Sarvanand Giri Regional Centre, Hoshiarpur

He bought 20 acres of property in the name of his guruji in Bajwara village on Una Road, 5 km from the court of Hoshiarpur and constructed a campus.


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