Dasuya (Dasua) is a town and a

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Hoshiarpur district Hoshiarpur district is a district of Punjab, India, Punjab state in northern India. Hoshiarpur, one of the oldest districts of Punjab, is located in the North-east part of the Punjab state and shares common boundaries with Gurdaspur district in ...

in the state of

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, India. It is one of the major subdivisions with 398 villages under its jurisdiction. This town has a great historical and mythological importance.

History

According to a report by ''

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'' newspaper in 1977, the town is referred to in the ancient Indian epic, the ''

Mahabharata The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; , , ) is one of the two major Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epics of ancient India revered as Smriti texts in Hinduism, the other being the ''Ramayana, Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the events and aftermath of the Kuru ...

'', as being the seat of king

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. In recognition of this, Dasuya is still referred to as ''Virat Ki Nagri'' today. In the closing decade of the fourteenth century, Dasuya at least twice witnessed the passage of an army during the struggle against the Muslim conquerors,

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and Amir Taimur. Later, in December 1557, the army of the incumbent

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, led by his governor of

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, camped at the town while dealing successfully with a threat posed by Sikandar Sur. Dasuya featured in debates related to the emergence of

Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh (; Sanskrit: ''himācāl prādes;'' "Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a States and union territories of India, state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the thirteen Indian Himalayan ...

. Verma has noted that "Perhaps no other State of India has suffered as many territorial and political changes in recent times as the Punjab". Within the process of the linguistic reorganization of states, the claim that Dasuya should be incorporated into Himachal Pradesh on the grounds that it was the home of

Dogra __NOTOC__ Dogras, or Dogra people, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic community of Pakistan and India. Dogra, Dogras or Dogri may also refer to: * Dogra dynasty, a Hindu dynasty of Kashmir * Dogri language, a language spoken by Dogras and other ethnic commu ...

s was rejected because that point was irrelevant to the linguistic issue. Dasuya remained in Punjab when the negotiations culminated in the Punjab Reorganisation Act of 1966.

Geography

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Hoshiarpur Hoshiarpur () is a city and a Municipal corporations in India, municipal corporation in Hoshiarpur district in the Doaba region of the Indian state of Punjab, India, Punjab. It was founded, according to tradition, during the early part of the ...

lies at a distance of for Dasuya;

Mukerian Mukerian is a city and Municipal council (India), Municipal council of Hoshiarpur district, Hoshiarpur district in Punjab (India), Punjab, India. Mukerian is located on National Highway 44 and state highway 15 about north of New Delhi. It is ...

is away;

Jalandhar Jalandhar () is a city in the state of Punjab, India, Punjab in India. With a considerable population, it ranks as the List of cities in Punjab and Chandigarh by population, third most-populous city in the state and is the largest city in the ...

is ;

Gurdaspur Gurdaspur is a city in the Majha region of the Indian state of Punjab, between the rivers Beas and Ravi. It houses the administrative headquarters of Gurdaspur District and is in the geographical centre of the district, which shares a bord ...

, ;

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, ; and

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is distant.

Demographics

The table below shows the population of different religious groups in Dasuya city, as of 2011 census.

Transport

The town has a railway station and is located on

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Renovation

The

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granted Rs 10.6 million to renovate the

sarovar Temple tanks are wells or reservoirs built as part of the temple complex near Indian temples. They are called pushkarini, kalyani, kunda, sarovara, tirtha, talab, pukhuri, ambalakkuḷam, etc. in different languages and regions of India. Some ...

(temple tank) and a temple.

Villages

* Harsi Pind *

Tahli, Dasuya Tahli, also named Khokharan, is a village 5 km from Begowal. It is under Dasuya, a tehsil in the city Hoshiarpur of Indian state of Punjab. Numberdar of the village is Sardar Jarnail Singh. Transportation Tahli lies on the edge of beas ...

References

External links

Municipal Council Dasuya
{{Authority control Cities and towns in Hoshiarpur district