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Bija
Beeja
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Bija
Bija (India)
Coordinates: 30°42′N76°13′E / 30.7°N 76.22°E / 30.7; 76.22 Coordinates: 30°42′N76°13′E / 30.7°N 76.22°E / 30.7; 76.22
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
State Punjab
District Ludhiana
Founded by Baba Desu
Government
 • Type Panchayt
 • Body Gram panchayat
Area
 • Total 28 km2 (11 sq mi)
Elevation 254 m (833 ft)
 • Rank 3167
Languages
 • Official Punjabi
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN 141401
Telephone code 01628

Bija or Beeja is a village and former princely state in the Punjab Hills, in District Ludhiana in India.

Princely state Type of vassal state

A princely state, also called native state, feudatory state or Indian state, was a vassal state under a local or regional ruler in a subsidiary alliance with the British Raj. Though the history of the princely states of the subcontinent dates from at least the classical period of Indian history, the predominant usage of the term princely state specifically refers to a semi-sovereign principality on the Indian subcontinent during the British Raj that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by a local ruler, subject to a form of indirect rule on some matters. In actual fact, the imprecise doctrine of paramountcy allowed the government of British India to interfere in the internal affairs of princely states individually or collectively and issue edicts that applied to all of India when it deemed it necessary.

Ludhiana district District of Punjab in India

Ludhiana District is one of the 22 districts in the state of Punjab in northwest India. Ludhiana city, the district headquarters, is the hub of industry in Punjab. The main industries are bicycle parts and hosiery. Ludhiana is the biggest city of the state. It has eight tehsils, seven sub-tehsils and twelve development blocks. As of 2018, Total Population of Punjab is estimated to be 30,452,879.

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Village

Bija is situated about 30 km from Ludhiana city and 14 km from Khanna. Manji Sahib Gurudawara is to the south of the village. Because of the location of the village, it is on the main junction of Amritsar Delhi NH1 and Payal Samrala cross roads.

Khanna, Ludhiana Place in Punjab, India

Khanna is a city and a municipal council in the Ludhiana district of Punjab, India.

The first ever milk plant was built here by a Scandinavian in the early 1960s. The village gurudwara was rebuilt by the family who had immigrated to USA in 1910. The village has seen a lot changes in 10 to 15 years. Prominent villagers now reside abroad in countries like Canada, UK and USA.

The main Jatt clans are Khattra, Kular and Sangha.

History

This village was founded by Sardar Nachattar Singh Khattra. He was the wealthiest person of the area and the most prominent businessman of Punjab at that time. Khattra's business expanded from Northern India all the way to Eastern India.

During the colonial British Raj, Sardar Nachattar Singh built a Haveli (palace) in the village of Khattra, which still stands to this day. Often during Sardar Nachattar Singh's visits to Khattra village, he used to meet the British colonial Governors of the area. Khattra is situated near Gurdwara Karamsar Rara Sahib or Gurdwara Rara Sahib. This village was transformed from simple Rara to Rara Sahib due to the visit by the sixth Sikh Guru, Guru Hargobind Ji. Nachattar's business interests varied from a brewery to Brick Mines, Land and Transportation. Even to this date Khattra Buses are seen on the roads of Punjab and still has 60% of transportation hold in the state of Punjab.

British Raj British rule in the Indian subcontinent, 1858-1947

The British Raj was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent from 1858 to 1947. The rule is also called Crown rule in India, or direct rule in India. The region under British control was commonly called British India or simply India in contemporaneous usage, and included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom, which were collectively called British India, and those ruled by indigenous rulers, but under British tutelage or paramountcy, and called the princely states. The whole was also informally called the Indian Empire. As India, it was a founding member of the League of Nations, a participating nation in the Summer Olympics in 1900, 1920, 1928, 1932, and 1936, and a founding member of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945.

Guru Hargobind The sixth Guru of Sikhism

Guru Hargobind, revered as the sixth Nanak, was the sixth of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion. He had become Guru at the young age of eleven, after the execution of his father, Guru Arjan, by the Mughal emperor Jahangir.

During the colonial British Raj era, Bija was the capital of Bija State, one of several princely states of the Punjab Hills, [1] in the charge of the Punjab States Agency.

Punjab States Agency

The Punjab States Agency was a political office of the British Indian Empire. The agency was created in the 1930s, on the model of the Central India Agency and Rajputana Agency, and dealt with forty princely states in northwest India formerly dealt with by the British province of the Punjab.

Ruling Thakurs

Its native rulers were styled Thakur. After the 1803 - 1815 occupation by the Ghurka Kingdom of Nepal, which constituted an interregnum, they were :

Thakur (title)

Thakur or Thakkar is a historical feudal title of the Indian subcontinent, now used as a surname. The female variant of the title is Thakurani or Thakurain, also used to describe the wife of a Thakur.

Kingdom of Nepal Sovereign monarchy in South Asia, lasting from 1768-2008

The Kingdom of Nepal, also known as the Kingdom of Gorkha or Asal Hindustan, was a Hindu kingdom on the Indian subcontinent, formed in 1768, by the unification of Nepal. Founded by King Prithvi Narayan Shah, a Gorkhali monarch of Rajput origin from medieval India, it existed for 240 years until the abolition of the Nepalese monarchy in 2008. During this period, Nepal was formally under the rule of the Shah dynasty, which exercised varying degrees of power during the kingdom's existence.

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  1. ↑ WorldStatesmen- India- Princely States A-J
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