Places To Visit In Punjab - Part 3
A. Bhatinda
Bathinda, one of the littler places in Punjab has a rich religious and social legacy. The historical backdrop of the Bhatinda is connected with various religions. The verifiable landmarks in the spot are reminiscent of the Sikh society as well as that of Hindus and Muslims.
It was in the wildernesses of Bhatinda that the tenth Guru, Shrigobind Singh Ji battled the Mogul powers. The spot has various Gurudwaras going over to the times of the Mogul Emperor, Aurnagzeb. The region gets its name from the area home office town of Bathinda, which is of extraordinary vestige.
As per Khalifa Muhammad Hassan, creator of History of Patiala, its old name was Bikramgarh. As per raverty, Bathinda was known as Tabarhindh (Labb-ut-Twarikh). As per Ibnbatuta it was known as Batrind. The soonest say of Tabarhindh happens in the "Jami-Ul-Hakayat" expounded on 607 Hijri or 1211 AD.
As per "Ainai-Barar Bans" Bathinda was assembled by Bhatirao, child of Bal Band, who got to be leader of Punjab in 336 Bikramisambat. He additionally established Bhatner. It was additionally called Whatinda and Bitunda which at last get to be known as Bhatinda.
However its name was changed to Bathinda on the power of Survey of India to adjust to the phonetical representation as provincially declared. As of late the town was prevailed over by Maharaja Ala Singh (close around 1754 AD) and from that point forward it took after the historical backdrop of past august condition of Patiala.
With the beginning of indendence and merger of Patiala and East Punjab States into a division styled at PEPSU, Bathinda get to be undeniable region which states has consolidated much after the merger of PEPSU with past Punjab State in 1956.
It comprises of 285 towns out of which 281 are possessed and 4 are uninhabited, eight towns and one registration town.
Spots to Visit
a. Damdama Sahib
From the authentic perspective, the vital place in the locale is Talwandi Sabo (Damdama Sahib) associated with the historical backdrop of Sikhs.
The town of Talwandi tehsil prevalently known as Damdama Sahib arranged 18 miles south of Bathinda. It is the venue of colourfulbaisakhi reasonable. After his fierest fight with the Mughals at Anandpur Sahib, Chamkaur Sahib and Muktsar, Guru Gobind Singh resigned to the wilderness of Malwa.
He loose and took rest (Dam) at Talwandi Sabo and consequently its name Damdama Sahib. The Guru stayed here nine months and nine days. He made the spot a Center for spreading his mission and thus its name Guru-ki- Kanshi. He re-managed Adi-Granth here and called the spot as Khalse Da Takhat.
A seal was additionally arranged bearing the "Akal Sahai Guru Gobind Singh jikijagha-Takhatdamdama Sahib ji. This spot had been gone to prior by Guru Tegbahadur, the father of Guru Gobind Singh. Damdama Sahib is likewise the base camp of Nihangs. There are ten Gurudwaras and three tanks.
The three tanks are; Nanksarsarover, Akalsarsaroveer and Gurusarsarover. The initially named tank is connected with Guru Nanak Devji who is said to have gone by this town in 1510 A., D. amid his second Pad Yatra to Rajputana.
The Akalsarsarover is connected with Guru Gobindsinghji and a taste of water from it is accepted to be a protection against any sickness and scourage. The Gurusarsarover is said to have been dug up under the requests of Guru Tegbahadurji.
b. Qila Mubarak
The old spectacular retic of its past quality is the post at Bathinda which is greatest than its rivals at Lahore, Phillour and Hanumangarh. It remains as an immense sentinel in the heart of the town.
Consistently, Sri Guru Gobindsinghji additionally stayed in this post. It has long captivating history behind it.
c. Master Nanak Dev Thermal Plant & Guru Hargobind Thermal Plant.
Master Nank Dev Thermal Plant has four units of 210 MW limits each for force era. As of late an alternate warm plant at Lehramuhabat has likewise come up to meet the expanding requests of force. This plant has two units of 210 MW limits for force era.
d. Maiser Khana
The Maisar Khana mandir 29 km from Bathinda on Bathinda-Mansa Road. As per a legend, the jyoti of Mata Jawala seemed to offer darshan to a poor fan who couldn't reach durga sanctuary at Jawala Ji.
Consistently, Two Melas are held where lacs of fans come to have Darshan of Jawalaji.
B. Faridkot
Faridkot was the capital town of the past regal State of Faridkot. The city is named after the renowned Muslim profound writer Baba Farid. Baba Farid, whose work has discovered an unmistakable place in the blessed Guru Granth Sahib.
He was utilized as a worker when he first resulted in these present circumstances place. However on seeing a heavenly disclosure, Sheik Farid was permitted to leave. The wicker container given to him to convey earth was seen coasting without any backing.
In his respect the town was renamed as Faridkot. The town now has a tomb of baba Farid called 'Chila Baba Farid'.faridkot has a lot of people fine structures, the most imperative being the previous Secretariat constructing now lodging the District Courts, Guest House, Clock Tower, Darbarganj and the stadium.
The town additionally houses previous ruler's castle and a stronghold. The town of Faridkot likewise figures conspicuously in the battle for Indian freedom
Spots to Visit
a. Darbar Ganj
This delightful cabin is a well laid out arrangement place. All the rooms are done in the most current style. The visitors from the sisterly states utilized Darbarganj for sit tight. The building has now been changed over into Circuit House.now This complex likewise houses the workplace of Commissioner Faridkot, Division Faridkot.
b. Gurdwara Tilla (Chilla) Baba Farid
This is as old as the town-self. This spot is arranged close to the Qilla Mubarak. Baba Farid stayed at this spot in contemplation for 40 prior days progressing to Pakpattan. Other than spot of Tilla Baba Farid. A consecrated bit of wood with which Baba ji wiped his hands littered with mud has been safeguarded to - date.
Shabad-Kirtan is discussed get every day and Langer is additionally served consistently to the individuals going to this spot. The poor likewise get every day langer, bigger number of individuals visit this heavenly place on every Thursday to pay their regard to the incredible Sufi Saint.
c. Gurdwara Godari Sahib
This spot is arranged on the out skirts around 4 K.m. on Faridkot-Kotkapura street. It is accepted that Baba Sheik Farid left his godari (Jacket) there before entering Faridkot town.
A lovely gurdwara was developed in 1982 and a Santsarover was later built at this spot. Expansive quantities of individuals visit this place each Thursday furthermore clean up in this Sarover.
d. Gurdwara Tibbi Sahib
Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji is said to have gone to Jaitu on fifteenth April, 1706. Here Guru Ji stayed at a Sand Dune (Tibba) close town Jaitu and rehearsed shafts shooting with different sikhs.
Individuals assemble here on tenth Phagun consistently in memory of the sikhs who scarified their lives amid Jaitumorcha and this is known as Shaheedijormela.
C. Ludhiana
They stayed outdoors at the site of present city of Ludhiana which was then a town called Mir Hota. Yusaf Khan went over the stream Sutlej in Jalandhar Doab to check Khokhars who were ravaging the Doab and made a settlement at Sultanpur while Nihand Khan stayed back and established the present city at the site of town Mir Hota.
The new town was initially known as Lodhi-ana, which implies the town of Lodi's. The name later changed to the present name Ludhiana.
Spots to Visit
a. Nehru Rose Garden
Nehru Rose Garden, built in 1967, is one of the green spaces of Ludhiana city and a perfect spot for going through with gang. The biggest Rose Garden in Asia, it is spread over a territory of 27 sections of land and has more than 17,000 plants speaking to around 1,600 mixed bags of roses and additionally a few wellsprings.
This is bloom enclosure and an arrangement for walkers with a lit up musical wellspring. This enclosure is the venue of the Annual Rose celebration, an occasion recorded on the national logbook of fairs and celebrations. This is one of the primary social occasions of the city and draws a great many guests.
b. The Hardy's World
The Hardy's World created a considerable amount of energy in the hearts of Ludhiana youngsters as they had seen in the commercial Essel World and had needed a comparative thing in Ludhiana. Around 7 Kms from the principle city, this outwardly shocking carnival offers a complete fun-bundle.
Topic gatherings, bistros, moonlight trips and shopping complex are diversion bonanza for all age bunches. Presently water city has additionally been incorporated, where one can different varieties of water games alongside ice-skating & snowfall. This is India's third biggest Indoor snow city.
c. Rustic Museum
The Museum of Rural life of Punjab in the grounds of the Punjab Agricultural University is one of the must-sees for any vacationer of Punjab. The gallery is found at the over of College of Home Science of this University. This historical center shows the Punjabi Culture to its best.
The entire credit for developing this historical center goes to Dr. M.s. Randhawa, the first Vice Chancellor of this University. It was he who considered the thought and started the task. He chose suitable configuration for the building and gathered the old articles from little old towns and towns like Sultanpur Lodhi, Rahon, Goindwal, Zira and Sunam.
d. Ludhiana Textiles Industry
The commercial enterprises are occupied with the creation of bike and its parts, sewing machines and parts of machines, instant articles of clothing, and hosiery products. Among all these commercial ventures material industry in Ludhiana is the most essential.
Ludhiana possesses an indispensable position in the modern situation of Punjab and even India. It is even called the modern capital of Punjab. Ludhiana is one of the foremost makers of woolen and acrylic knitwear, separated from it likewise uses cotton and mixed fiber to deliver hosiery, knitwear and different instant pieces of clothing. Ludhiana helps almost 21% of every last one of commercial enterprises and more than 28% of the yield of Punjab.
The material business in Ludhiana makes utilization of both common strands like cotton, silk, jute and fleece and manufactured filaments, for example, polyester, gooey, nylon, acrylic and mixed filaments. These businesses produce T-Shirts, shirts, pullovers, cardigans, track suits, socks, pullover, sweat shirts, gloves, shawls, inward articles of clothing, and so forth.
The material business of Ludhiana chiefly satisfies the prerequisites of the household market, despite the fact that for almost ten years it has likewise traded its items. About 99% of material commercial ventures in Ludhiana are little scale.
The Ludhiana material industry has around 10,000 mechanical units, embodying exporters, brand makers and high-scale producers. The business utilizes more than five hundred thousand talented laborers. The material business of Ludhiana subsequently gives work to numerous individuals. It is additionally the spine of Ludhiana's economy. Ludhiana material has been sprucing up India for quite a while now.
e. Punjab Agricultural University - PAU, Ludhiana
Created in 1962 to serve the condition of recent Punjab. On the revamping of Punjab, two free colleges for the two states - Punjab and Haryana were created under the Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, 1970.the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) is found in Ludhiana city (Punjab State) in north-west India at a separation of 316 km from New Delhi.
It is decently associated by street and rail with the national capital. Arranged on the Ludhiana - Ferozepur Road, the University covers a zone of 1510 sections of land on its primary facilities and 4615 sections of land at the local examination stations.
Demonstrated on the example of area stipend schools in U.s.a., the PAU performs the incorporated capacities of instructing, research and augmentation in agribusiness, rural designing, veterinary and creature sciences, home science and united controls.
The University has well equipped research centers, library and address rooms and fancy homestead offices. Lodging convenience is accessible in the college inns for single understudies. Hitched understudies, if joined by their relatives, will need to discover convenience outside the facilities.
The PAU has assumed a key part in expanding nourishment grain generation in the Punjab State a few folds impart its notoriety and introducing a time of Green Revolution in India. It has likewise made prominent commitments in expanding animals and poultry creation.
In distinguishment of its remarkable accomplishments in agrarian examination, training and augmentation, it was decreed the Best Agricultural University in India in 1995.
D. Sri Anandpur Sahib
A blessed city in Punjab whose verifiable importance to the Sikhs is second just to Amritsar. Many Sikhs once grasped suffering here. Two Gurus and groups of four Gurus existed here for a long time.
Sikh history is profoundly checked by their battle for survival in an unpredictable area, particularly amid the crest of Mughal oppression under Aurangzeb, which radicalized the Sikhs (numerous painted creations in the historical center at the Golden Temple, Amritsar, record the sickening abuse stories retold over the area).
The enchanted confidence of Guru Nanak changed into the savagely straightforward and nationalistic confidence of Guru Gobind Singh, who additionally dedicated the Sikhs to the five Ks. In ahead of schedule nineteenth century,
Maharaja Ranjit Singh further mobilized the Sikh country, making the first current armed force in the subcontinent. Switching the prevailing verifiable pattern, he went west to prevail over new terrains (which later fell in the British lap).
This change is still reflected in the iconography and practice of Sikhism. Swords, lances, shields, and blades are a centerpiece show in all Gurdwaras, other than the Guru Granth Sahib secured in luxury. Indeed today numerous Sikhs get to be Nihangs, a request established by Guru Gobind Singh himself as the battling group of the Khalsa.
The Nihangs-in different blue robes and furnished just with customary swords, lances, blades repudiate common belonging and focus on grasping affliction ought to the need present itself. Indeed today an awry number of Sikhs enter the Indian resistance strengths.
a. Anandgarh Fort
Anandpur sahib ,the town where the khalsa was established, was built by Guru Teg Bahadur on the banks of River Sutlej. It was once braced by five grand fortresses. Of these, the principle fortification inherent red underground well inside the stronghold, got to by a sharp flight of stairs, is a captivating gimmick of its building design. It is here that the yearly Hola Mohalla celebration is held.
b. Virasat-e-Khalsa
The Virasat-e-Khalsa in Anandpur Sahib was started in 1999 to honor the third centennial of the establishing of the Khalsa Panth (Sikh country) by Guru Gobind Singh. Spread over a liberal 6,500 sq m, the as of late opened virasat-e-Khalsa gallery recounts a huge story of both Punjab and Sikhism, utilizing hand-created curios and the most recent engineering.
Composed by acclaimed designer Moshe Safdie, this narrating vault is the first of its scale on the planet, and has been imagined as the world's biggest social and recorded exhibition hall devoted to a solitary group.
Imagined as two practically coordinated sets of building, the Western unpredictable, structuring the passage for the town gives walker access to the eastern mind boggling over a 165-meter span. An arrangement of reflecting pools make a far reaching water body between the two edifices with arcaded walkways and enclosure on either side. Open offices and a cafeteria are found at the base of the scaffold.
Timings: 10am – 5pm (Tues-Sun)/ Closed: Monday/
Entry: Free
c. Master Tegh Bahadur Museum
The Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Museum was implicit 1983 in celebration of the third century of the Guru's affliction. Found close takhat Sri Keshgarh Sahib, the exhibition hall's structural planning reflects that of the gurdwara. A huge gathering of pantings,narrating the historical backdrop of the Sikhs, including portrayals from Guru Tegh Bahadur's life, is shown here.
Timings:10am – 5pm (tues-sun)/ Closed: Monday/ Entry: Free
d. Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib
Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib is the standard altar in Anandpur Sahib. This is the noteworthy site where, upon the arrival of baisakhi in 1699, Guru Gobind Singh launched his supporters into the request of the Khalsa (Sikh country).
Legend maintins that the Guru asked for those present to volunteer their heads to him. At the point when five daring men, now known as the Panj Paire (five darling), approached to set out their lives, the Guru rather absolved them with amrit (sacred water).
The Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib, re-buit in twentieth century, contains the sanctum sanctorum where the trappings of Guru Gobing Singh – a Khanda, a knife and a few lances – are safeguarded.
E. Sangrur
The locale can scarcely brag of wherever of traveler investment, in spite of the fact that there are a couple of spots of some verifiable or religious imperativeness. The individuals generally are God-dreading and have kept up master dwaras and mandirs of verifiable essentialness.
Given in the accompanying pages are the spots/towns, which as indicated by neighborhood sources are known to have some recorded, religious or even superstitious vitality. Separated from these spots, there are a couple of others which are creating as agrarian, promoting, mechanical or exchanging of Sangrur.
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