Buttar Bakhuha is a small village in the

Giddarbaha Giddarbaha is a town and a municipal council in Muktsar district, in the Indian state of Punjab. It is from the city of Malout, from the city of Bathinda and from the city of Muktsar. It lies on NH-7, which connects Fazilka (Punjab) to Ma ...

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a Zila (country subdivision), district including the designated populated place that ser ...

Sri Muktsar Sahib district Sri Muktsar Sahib district is one of the 23 districts in the Indian state of Punjab. The capital city of district is Sri Muktsar Sahib. The district itself was historically referred to as Khidrane Di Dhaab. There are four tehsils in the district ...

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. The village is predominated by the Jatts of

Buttar Buttar is a Jat people, Jat clan and surname found in the Punjab region of both India and Pakistan. List of notable people Notable people with this surname include: * Muhammad Javed Buttar, former justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan * Ma ...

clan.

Geography

The village is 7 km away from the Giddarbaha city and 265 km from the state

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Chandigarh Chandigarh is a city and union territory in northern India, serving as the shared capital of the states of Punjab and Haryana. Situated near the foothills of the Shivalik range of Himalayas, it borders Haryana to the east and Punjab in the ...

. Husnar (4.5 km), Madhir (4.5 km) and Kot Bhai (4.5 km) are the surrounding villages.

Demographics

At the 2001 census, the village had a total population of 1,985 with 332 households, 1,038 males and 947 females. Thus males constituted 52% and females 48% of the population with the

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of 912 females per thousand males.

Culture

The village is predominated by the Jatts of

community/clan. The population mainly follows the Sikh faith.
Punjabi is the

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as well as the

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of the village.

References

{{Sri Muktsar Sahib district Villages in Sri Muktsar Sahib district