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Dhankot is a village in
Gurgaon Gurgaon (), officially named Gurugram (), is a satellite city of Delhi and administrative headquarters of Gurgaon district, located in the northern Indian state of Haryana. It is situated near the Delhi–Haryana border, about southwest ...
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Gurgaon District Gurgaon district, officially known as Gurugram district, is one of the 22 districts of Haryana in northern India. The city of Gurgaon is the administrative headquarters of the district. The population is 1,514,432. It is one of the southern dist ...
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Haryana Haryana () is a States and union territories of India, state located in the northern part of India. It was carved out after the linguistic reorganisation of Punjab, India, Punjab on 1 November 1966. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with les ...
, in India. Dhankot is 6.842 km distance from its mandal main town Gurgaon. Dhankot is 8.327 km distance from its district main city Gurgaon. It lies on Basai road towards Farukh Nagar. The average sex Ratio of Dhankot village is 849, which is lower than Haryana state average of 879. However, the child sex ratio for Dhankot as per the 2011 census is 951, higher than the Haryana average of 834. Other villages in Gurgaon Mandal are Babupur, Badha, Bajghera, Bamroli, Bandhwari, Bargujar,
Basai Basai Jat is a Jat village in Gurgaon Mandal, Gurgaon district, Gurgaon District, Haryana, India. Basai is 4 km distance from its district main city Gurgaon and 282 km distance from its state main city Chandigarh. It has a population of about ...
, Chakkarpur, Chandu, Daultabad, and
Dhanwapur Dhanwapur is one of the villages in Gurgaon Mandal in Gurgaon District in Haryana state. Dhanwapur is 2.940 km far from its district main city Gurgaon. It is 252 km far from its state main city Chandigarh. One can follow Dhanwapur road ...
. Nearby villages of this village with distance are
Garhi Harsaru Garhi Harsaru is a town and railway station in Gurugram district of Haryana state in India. It lies on the road from Gurugram city to Pataudi town. According to the Census India 2011, it has a population of about 7894 persons of which 4216 are ...
(3.737 km), Harsaru (3.831 km), Chandu (3.848 km), Daulatabad (4.123 km), Budhera (4.530 km), Dharampur (4.777 km), Kadipur (4.899 km). Its geographical coordinates are 28° 29' 0" North, 76° 57' 0" East.


History

The town has mythological significance. It is believed that it was from this place that milk was supplied to Guru Dronacharya and his pupils at Gurugram (Gurgaon). According to Buddhist literature, Dhankot is also known as Thullkottiha (थुलकोठिया) (or Dhool kot, in common language) and Lord Buddha is said to have visited this place. Until 1947 Dhankot was in the possession of Ranghar Muslim Chauhans (Dhundhoti). The majority of those ranghars settled in Sikandarabad in ultan District of Pakistanafter migration. After their departure to Pakistan, the land was allotted to the arriving Hindu refugees from Pakistan and its name was changed from Dhoolkot to Dhankot.


Population

Population of Dhankot is 5585 according to Census 2011, where male population is 3020 and female population is 2565.


References

{{Gurgaon district topics Villages in Gurgaon district