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Jind
Coordinates: 29°19′N76°19′E / 29.317°N 76.317°E / 29.317; 76.317
Country Flag of India.svg  India
State Haryana
District Jind
Named for Jayanti (Daughter of Indra
Government
 • Type Municipal Council
 • BodyMunicipal Council Jind [1]
Elevation
227 m (745 ft)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total167,592
 • Density440/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Languages
 • Official Hindi, English
 • Regional Haryanvi
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
126102
Railway station code
JIND
Telephone code91-1681
ISO 3166 code IN-HR
Vehicle registration HR-31, HR-56 (Commercial)
Nearest capitals New Delhi, Chandigarh
Sex ratio 911 ♂/♀
Literacy75%
Lok Sabha constituency Sonipat
Vidhan Sabha constituencyJind City
Planning agencyHUDA(Haryana Urban Development Authority)
Civic agencyMunicipal Committee, Jind
Climate Cw (Köppen)
Precipitation 550 millimetres (22 in)
Website www.jind.nic.in

Jind is one of the largest and oldest cities in Jind district in the Indian state of Haryana. It is the administrative headquarter of Jind district. Rani Talab is the main destination for tourists while Pandu Pindara and Ramrai are the main religious spots, attracting devotees for the holy bath during Amavasya .

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Etymology

Jind was named Jayantapura after the lord of victory Jayant (Indra), whom Pandavas worshipped before the Mahabharata war. According to oral tradition, Pandavas built the Jayanti Devi Temple in honour of Jyanti Devi (the goddess of victory, daughter of Indra). The temple is in the centre and whole Jind city was built around it. They offered prayers for success and then started a battle against Kaurava. The town was built around the temple and named Jayantapuri (Abode of Jyanti Devi) which was later renamed to Jind. After Pandavas won the Kurukshetra War they again returned back and stayed here for 14 years in the wait for Somavati Amawasya. The village Pandu Pindara at the outskirts of Jind city is named after the same [2]

History

Jind was a part of the Indus Valley Civilisation. The site of Rakhigarhi, where one of the highest number of settlements happened during Indus valley, is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) away from Jind city. It later became part of Kuru Kingdom.[ citation needed ]


Jind is listed in the Ain-i-Akbari as a pargana under the sarkar of Hisar, producing a revenue of 5,401,749 dams for the imperial treasury and supplying a force of 4000 infantry and 500 cavalry. Under its entry, the author Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak mentioned the Hindu temple in the nearby village of Pandu Pindara. [3]

In 1775, Maharaja Gajpat Singh Sidhu built the Jind Fort, which later came under Maharani Jind Kaur, queen of Naresh Swarup Singh Sidhu - the Jat ruler of Jind State. [4]

The Jat ruler Maharaja Gajpat Singh, the great-grandson of Chaudhary Phul Singh Sidhu and the founder of the Phulkian Misl, established an independent Sikh kingdom by seizing a large tract of the country with Sikh armed forces, which included the territory occupied by the present district of Jind from the Afghan governor Zain Khan in 1763. In 1775, Maharaja established Jind as the capital of the state in 1776. The fort of Jind was built by Sidhu Jat Sikh ruler Maharaja Gajpat Singh in 1776 AD. Sangrur was chosen later as the capital of Jind State by Raja Sangat Singh (reigned 1822 to 1834). It was under the suzerainty of the Maratha Empire for much of the 18th century. After independence, Jind State was merged with the Indian union and the territory of the district became part of the Sangrur district of the Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU) on 15 July 1948. On 1 November 1966, Sangrur district was divided in two and the Jind and Narwana tehsils were merged to form the Jind district. This was one of the seven districts of the newly formed Haryana state. The Jind tehsil was bifurcated further into two tehsils: Jind and Safidon in 1967. [2]

Geography

Jind is located at 29°19′N76°19′E / 29.32°N 76.32°E / 29.32; 76.32 . [5] It has an average elevation of 227 metres (744 feet).[ citation needed ]

Demographics

As of 2011, the Indian census [6] reported that Jind city had a population of 166,225. Males and females constituted 53.3% and 46.7% of the population, respectively. The sex ratio was measured at 877 compared to the national average of 940. The sex ratio for the zero to six year age group was at 831, which was lower than the national average of 918. Jind had an average literacy rate of 74%, higher than the national average of 64.3%. Male literacy was at 80%, while female literacy was at 67%. In Jind, there were 18,825 children under six years of age who made up 11.3% of the population in 2011. [6] [7] Haryanavi, Hindi and Punjabi are the languages spoken by most of the people.

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References

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  2. 1 2 Haryana Samvad Archived 29 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine , Oct 2018, p44-46.
  3. ↑ Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak; Jarrett, Henry Sullivan (translator) (1891). The Ain-i-Akbari. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal. p. 294. Retrieved 21 January 2021.{{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)
  4. ↑ Sohan Singh Khattar and Reena Kar, 2021, Know Your State Haryana, Arihant Publications, pp 308.
  5. ↑ "Maps, Weather, Videos, and Airports for Jind, India". Fallingrain.com. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  6. 1 2 "View Population". Censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  7. ↑ "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 16 June 2004. Retrieved 1 November 2008.
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