Khawaspur is a village, located in

Rupnagar District Rupnagar district is one of twenty-three districts in the state of Punjab, India. The city of Rupnagar is said to have been founded by a Raja called Rokeshar, who ruled during the 11th century and named it after his son Rup Sen. It is also t ...

Punjab Punjab (; ; also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb) is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern Pakistan and no ...

, in

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. This village is located 3 kilometers from Ropur (now Roopnagar), which serves as both the district and sub-district headquarters. The total area of Khawaspur village is 174 hectares (1.74 square kilometers). The nearest police station is situated in the Rupnagar tahsil.

Demographics

Khawaspur is a rural village in Rupnagar District, Punjab, with a population of 1,340 people living in 251 households. The village has a fairly balanced gender distribution, with 686 males and 654 females. Children aged 0-6 years make up 5.9% of the population, with 48 boys and 31 girls. The literacy rate stands at 81%, with 1,022 literate individuals (542 males and 480 females), and 318 individuals are illiterate (144 males and 174 females). Regarding employment, 390 individuals are classified as workers, with 315 main workers and 75 marginal workers. The Scheduled Caste (SC) population comprises 525 people, including 269 males and 256 females.

Notable feature

Khawaspur is a popular village in Rupnagar District, Punjab, known as the ancestral village of

Kanshi Ram Kanshi Ram (15 March 1934 – 9 October 2006), also known as Bahujan Nayak or Manyavar, Sahab Kanshiram was an Indian politician and social reformer who worked for the upliftment and political mobilisation of the Bahujans, the backward or lowe ...

, the founder of

BAMCEF Waman Meshram The All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation, abbreviated as BAMCEF, is an organisation for employees of oppressed communities that was established in 1971 by Kanshi Ram, D. K. Khaparde, and Dinabhana. ...

, DS4, and the

Bahujan Samaj Party The Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP) is a political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans (literally means "community in majority"), referring to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes (OBC), along with Religious ...

. Kanshi Ram completed his science studies at Government College, Ropar, in 1955. On March 15, 2021, a statue of Kanshi Ram was unveiled in Khawaspur by then Delhi Cabinet Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam, with support from Kanshi Ram’s nephew, Balwinder Singh, and village sarpanch Manpreet Singh.

References

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