Jind Tourism, Haryana India
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Jind Fast Facts
- State: Haryana
- District: Jind
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- Population: 1334152 (2011)
- Religions: Hindu, Muslim
- Area: 2,702 km2
- Altitude: 227 m
- Language: Hindi, Haryanabi
- Best Season: October to March
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- Local Transport: Bus, Taxi, Auto Riksaw
- Pincode: 126102
- STDCode: 01681
Jind, India Overview
Jind is a city located in the Indian state of Haryana. It is located at a distance of 123 kms from Delhi. As per the legendary tales, the town was inhabited during the Mahabharata period. The Pandavas built a temple here dedicated to Goddess Jainti Devi (the Goddess of victory). They offered prayers here to seek the blessings of the Goddess to attain victory in the Mahabharata war. The town got inhabited as it was named as Jaintapuri after the temple. As time passed by the name Jaintapuri slowly changed to Jind.
Jind is originally a mythological town which shares its boundary with the holy Kurukshetra where the epic battle of Mahabharata was fought. The place has been mentioned in the Mahabharata and the Puranas. The Western Yamuna irrigates the place. Earlier there were only cottage industries in Jind. To mention some of them - gold and silver jewellery making, carpentry, oil pressing, tanning and leather working, pottery, quilt making, weaving and cloth stamping. Saltpere, Kankar (small stones), stone are the minerals of the place which are refined in Jind. Many industries have started in Jind such as cotton-ginning, electrical goods, rice mills, soaps, candle factories and many more.
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Jind, India History
Raja Gajpat Singh, a great grandson of Phul, the founder of the Phulkian Misl, established an independent kingdom by seizing a large tract of country which included the territory occupied by the present district of Jind from the Afghan governor Zain Khan in 1763 and made Jind city, the capital of the state in 1776. He made a fort here in 1775. Later, Sangrur was chosen as capital of Jind State by Raja Sangat Singh (reigned 1822 to 1834). After independence, Jind State was merged with the Indian union and the territory of the present district became part of Sangrur district of Patiala and East Punjab States Union on 15 July 1948. At the time of its creation of Haryana state on 1 November 1966, Sangrur district was bifurcated and its Jind and Narwana tehsils were merged to form Jind district, one of the seven districts of the newly formed state. Jind tehsil was bifurcated to two tehsils: Jind and Safidon in 1967.