Jhanduke | |
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village | |
Coordinates: 29°44′52″N75°20′28″E / 29.747799°N 75.3411001°E Coordinates: 29°44′52″N75°20′28″E / 29.747799°N 75.3411001°E | |
Country | |
State | Punjab |
District | Mansa |
Tehsil | Sardulgarh |
Government | |
• Type | Panchayati raj (India) |
• Body | Gram panchayat |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 5,220 |
Languages | |
• Official | Punjabi |
• Regional | Punjabi |
Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
PIN | 151506 |
Telephone code | 01659 |
Jhanduke (sometimes spelled as Jhanduka) is a village in the Sardulgarh tehsil of Mansa district in Punjab, India. [1] Jhunir is the surrounding village.
Sardulgarh tehsil is one of the three tehsils of Mansa district of Punjab, India. The other two are Budhlada and Mansa. It borders with the state of Haryana in the south and the Barnala-Sirsa highway goes through the tehsil main city of Sardulgarh. The river, Ghaggar also flows through the tehsil. It has 78 villages falling under it with a development block of Jhunir.
Punjab is a state in northern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir to the north, Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast, Rajasthan to the southwest, and the Pakistani province of Punjab to the west. The state covers an area of 50,362 square kilometres, 1.53% of India's total geographical area. It is the 20th-largest Indian state by area. With 27,704,236 inhabitants at the 2011 census, Punjab is the 16th-largest state by population, comprising 22 districts. Punjabi is the most widely spoken and official language of the state. The main ethnic group are the Punjabis, with Sikhs (58%) and Hindus (38%). The state capital is Chandigarh, a Union Territory and also the capital of the neighbouring state of Haryana. The five tributary rivers of the Indus River from which the region took its name are Sutlej, Ravi, Beas, Chenab and Jhelum Rivers; Sutlej, Ravi and Beas are part of the Indian Punjab.
Jhunir, sometimes spelled Jhuner, is a town in the Sardulgarh tehsil of Mansa district in Punjab, India. It is also a block of the district.
According to 2011 census of India [2]
Subject | Total | Male | Female |
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Number of houses | 991 | ||
Population | 5,220 | 2709 | 2511 |
Children (0-6) | 617 | 329 | 288 |
Scheduled Caste | 1,800 | 922 | 878 |
Backward class | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Literacy rate | 55.62 % | 62.39 % | 48.36 % |
Workers | 2,245 | 1,543 | 702 |
Main workers | 1,980 | 0 | 0 |
Marginal workers | 265 | 107 | 158 |
The population mostly follows the Sikhism with Hinduism.
Sikhism ; Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖੀ), or Sikhi, is a monotheistic religion that originated in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent around the end of the 15th century. It is one of the youngest of the major world religions and the world's fifth largest organized religion, as well as being the world's ninth-largest overall religion. The fundamental beliefs of Sikhism, articulated in the sacred scripture Guru Granth Sahib, include faith and meditation on the name of the one creator, divine unity and equality of all humankind, engaging in selfless service, striving for justice for the benefit and prosperity of all and honest conduct and livelihood while living a householder's life. In the early 21st century, there were nearly 25 million Sikhs worldwide, the great majority of them living in Punjab, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia. Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, and some practitioners and scholars refer to it as Sanātana Dharma, "the eternal tradition", or the "eternal way", beyond human history. Scholars regard Hinduism as a fusion or synthesis of various Indian cultures and traditions, with diverse roots and no founder. This "Hindu synthesis" started to develop between 500 BCE and 300 CE, after the end of the Vedic period, and flourished in the medieval period, with the decline of Buddhism in India.
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