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Buttran is a small village located in the Bhogpur tehsil of Jalandhar district in the Punjab, India. [1] ... Sikhism is the main religion followed by villagers, ...
Illustration of Gogaji, based on a rock sculpture at Mandore, published in Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan (vol. II). Folk beliefs are most widespread in rural areas, [4] and this "popular religion" has been described as the religious practices of Punjab's "subordinate social sector," with miracle-working saints, malevolent deities, evil spirits, witchcraft and other occult practices, and ...
The Persians were the first to use the term Hindu, referring to a vast territory containing much regional variety in belief and practice.Nevertheless, the common concept was the belief in cycles of reincarnation, or sansār, and was the oldest recorded religion in the region. [10]
The city may be named after Jalandhara, a Nath Guru who was from here. [citation needed] The city was founded by Devasya Verma as mentioned in the Vedas.Other possibilities include that it was the capital of the kingdom of Lava, son of Rama or that the name derives from the vernacular term Jalandhar, meaning area inside the water, i.e., tract lying between the two rivers Satluj and Beas. [4]
People from Jalandhar (2 C, 104 P) Pages in category "People from Jalandhar district" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total.
Jalandhar district is a district in Doaba region of the state of Punjab, India. The district headquarters is the city of Jalandhar . Before the Partition of India , Jalandhar was also the headquarters of the Jalandhar Division , with constituent districts Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur , Ludhiana , Ferozepur and Kangra .
Today, the Punjabi Christians reside in the Punjab region, which includes the countries of Pakistan and India; they are almost equally divided between Catholicism and Protestantism. [ 2 ] [ 7 ] With an estimated three million living in the Pakistani province of Punjab , they account for 75 percent of the country's total Christian population .
St. Mary's Cathedral in Jalandhar, India. Christians form 1.26% of the total population numbering around 350,000 in Punjab, India as per as the 2011 census. [1] The Diocese of Amritsar of the Church of North India has its seat in Punjab as does the Roman Catholic diocese of Jalandhar.