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Jandwa is a village in Ratangarh tehsil in Churu district in Rajasthan. It is situated at a distance of 25 km from Churu in the west direction. The village was founded about 450 years ago by Jandu (Janu (clan)) Jats, who moved elsewhere and Khichar Jats settled here. Khichar Jats came to this place from Sidhmukh.

Churu City in Rajasthan, India

Churu is a city in the desert region of Rajasthan state of India. It is known as gateway to the Thar Desert of Rajasthan. It is the administrative headquarter of Churu District. It lies in the Thar Desert on the National Highway-65 connecting Pali to Ambala and is a junction station on the railway line to Bikaner. It is near the shifting sand dunes of the Thar Desert and has grand havelis with marvelous fresco paintings, namely Kanhaiya Lal Bagla Ki Haweli and Surana Haweli, with hundreds of small windows. It also has some fine Chhatris. Near the town is a religious seat of the Nath sect of Sadhus where there are life-size marble statues of their deities and a place for prayers. At the centre of the town is a fort built about 500 years ago.

Rajasthan State in India

Rajasthan is a state in northern India. The state covers an area of 342,239 square kilometres (132,139 sq mi) or 10.4 percent of the total geographical area of India. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. Rajasthan is located on the northwestern side of India, where it comprises most of the wide and inhospitable Thar Desert and shares a border with the Pakistani provinces of Punjab to the northwest and Sindh to the west, along the Sutlej-Indus river valley. Elsewhere it is bordered by five other Indian states: Punjab to the north; Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to the northeast; Madhya Pradesh to the southeast; and Gujarat to the southwest.

Jandu is a Sikh surname. The Jandu surname derives from the Ramgarhia group. Traditionally the Ramgarhia group had occupations such as carpentry, some then later diversified into the steel and construction industries when moving to East Africa (Kenya), then migrating to the UK.

Jat Gotras in the village

The population of the village Jandwa is about 500 families out of them Khichar is the only Jat gotra with population of 250 families. There is only one other Jat family of Ruhil.

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