HP GK Details Of UNA In English

HP GK Details Of UNA In English

UNA 

• Geography location 
• Rivers 
• Passses 
• Mountains 
• Culture 
• Arts 
• Demographics 
• Fairs and festivals 
• Temples 
• Miscellaneous facts
• History 

Geography 

Location -Western 
Latitude 31.4685° N, 
Longitude 76.2708° E 

Major Rivers-

Swan 

• Swan is most important river 

• Flows in jaswan valley 

• Merge in anandpaur sahib with satluj 

• Sorrow of river 

Other Rivers – 

• Satluj and Beas 

Borders – 

• North –Kangra 
• South –Bilaspur 
• West –Punjab 
• East –Hamirpur

Demographics 

• Area -1540 sq.km 
• Sex ratio-976 
• Literacy -86.53% 
• Population density -338

Administrative Divisions

• Sub Divisions - 4 
• [Una, Amb, Haroli & Bangana] 
• Tehsil - 5 
• [Una, Amb, Bangana, Haroli, Ghanari]
• Sub-Tehsils - 7 
• [Bharwain, Ispur, Jol, Dulehar, Bihrukalan, Kaloh, Mehatpur Basdehra] 
• Development Blocks - 5 
• [Una, Amb, Gagret Dhundla(Bangana) & Haroli] 
• Police Stations-6 
• [Una , Amb, Bangana, Haroli, Gagret & Bharwian] 
• Gram Panchayats - 234 
• Zila Parishad - 1 
• Parliamentary Constituency - 1 
• [Hamirpur]

Mountains 

• Bounded by shivalik ranges 
• Chintpurni and jaswan dhar 
• Solah singhi 
• Bharwain is highest peak

Fairs and festivals and temples 

Chintpurni – 

• fair held in every year 
• Pandit Mai das built this temple 

Baba bhadbhag – 

• Mairi 

Baba rudranand ashram 

• Nairi 
• Sahil verman built this ashram 
• on the memory of her daughter champavati 

Shiv bari 

• Gagret 
• Training of archery 
• Related to dronacharya

Miscellaneous 

• Pekhubella – seed multiplication farm 
• Anjoli – poultry farm 
• Milk chilling plant –jalera , bangana ,puboval 
• Mehatpur – industrial city 
• Una nangal – broad gauge railway line -1991
• Biggest village –dehla 
• Oldest name –jaswan doon

History of una 

• Formally a part of the erstwhile Kangra State 
• Present Una district which is otherwise popularly known as Jaswan Dun 
• Ruled by the Katoch family of Kangra. 
•  In 1170, founded by en PURAB CHAND.
•  Jaswan was the first off shoot from the parent stem(kangra). 
• Unsettled times following on the Muhammadan invasions. 
• From Purab Chand to Ummed Singh 27 Rajas in all ruled the Jaswan State.
•  With the acquisition of Kangra Fort, on the expulsion of the Gurkhas in 1809, JASWAN STATE became subject to Ranjit Singh 
• 1815 it was annexed to the Sikh Kingdom. 
• It was in the autumn of that year Maharaja Ranjit Singh summoned all his forces, personal and tributary, to assemble at SIALKOT
• Unluckily the Rajas of Nurpur and Jaswan failed to obey the summons and a
• fine fixed beyond their resources was imposed on each.
• Submitting quietly to his fate Raja Ummed Singh resigned his State and
• accepted a JAGIR of Rs. 12000 annual value and thus came the end of JASWANSTATE
•  During the second Sikh War of 1848 and as such Raja Ummed Singh joined the revolt of the Hill Chief against British authority.
• John Lawrence then Commissioner of Hoshiarpur attacked the Raja’s forts and razed them to the ground.
•  He and his son Jai Singh were deported to Almora in Kumaon (Garhwal) in the
• North-West provinces, where both of them died.
• later, at the request of Maharaja Gulab Singh of Jammu,
• Raja Ran Singh, son of Raja Jai Singh, was permitted to return,
• in order that his son, Raghunath Singh might marry the Maharaja’s granddaughter.
• 1877, at the request of Maharaja Ranbir Singh of Jammu and Kashmir,
• the British government restored to Raja Ran Singh the Jagir in Jaswan,
• Raja Ummed Singh consisting of 21 villages in Jaswan Dun valley
• The family garden at Amb, and palace buildings of Raja Ummed Singh at
• Rajpura
• Raja Ran Singh died in 1892
• Succeeded by his son Raja Raghunath Singh who also died in 1918.
• Laxman Singh succeeded him who started residing at Amb.
•  After expiry of Laxman Singh his son Chani Singh is living at Amb

Kutlehar

• Kuthlehar was the smallest of all the Kangra kingdom in olden times.
• Consisted of two provinces-Chauki and Kuthlehar,.
• The progenitor of the family was a Brahmin but on acquiring regal he was
• recognized as Rajput..
• About the tenth or eleventh century the then head of the family, named Jas Pal,
• conquered the taluqas of Talhatti and Kuthlehar and fixed his capital at KotKuthlehar.
• The two small states of Bhajji and koti in the Simla Hills were said to have been
• founded, by his second son and grand-son.
• The clan name is Kuthlehria.
• In the year 1758 Ghamand Chand who was appointed Governor of the hills by
• Ahmad Shah Durrani, annexed Chauki,
• the northern province of the state and in 1786, Sansar Chand seized Kuthleharand the Raja was completely dispossessed
• but during the Gurkha invasion all his territory was restored.
• From 1809 the state was subject to the Sikhs and in 1825 Maharaja Ranjit Singhdetermined to annex it laid siege to the strong fort of kotwalbah.
• The defence was conducted by Raja Narain Pal in person and for two longmonths the sieage made no progress. Ultimately a promise of a jagir of Rs.10000 was then made, if the fort was surrendered, to which the Raja agreed.
• During the first Sikh War, Raja Narain Pal succeeded in expelling the Sikhs from
• Kotwalbah and later in consideration of his services, he was awarded a life
• grant of Rs. 10000
• Later on one of the head of the family Raja Brij Mohal Pal was the fifth ViceregalDarbar in Kangra District
• Bedi vikram singh revolted against british in 1848
• Bedi sujan singh spread bedi rule in una in 1848
• Una become part of hoshiarpur in 1966
• From 1966 to 1972 una become part of kangra
• 1972 –become separate district
• City of una named by baba kaladhari