Taragarh Talawa

Air

Amritsar's international airport, Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport, has more than 160 domestic and international flights during the week with daily connections to Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, and Srinagar etc. in India and international flights to London(Heathrow), Birmingham, Melbourne and Sydney via Delhi. Also it has direct flights to Doha, Ashgabat, Tashkent and Dubai. Taragarh is 23 KM by road towards East from District head quarters Amritsar.

Rail

Jandiala Rail Way Station , Tangra Rail Way Station are the very nearby railway stations to Taragarh. However Amritsar Jn Rail Way Station is major railway station 22 KM near to Taragarh.

Road

Taragarh is located 3 KM away from the historic Grand Trunk Road (G.T Road), also known as National Highway 1, and therefore very well connected to the road network. Daily bus services run to and from the Amritsar-Jalandhar stretch of G.T. Road to four lanes. From Jandiala guru stop to Taragarh is only 5 KM away and auto rickshaw, rickshaw or bus service for Khadoor Sahib road is main transport available.

Geography and climate

Taragarh Talawa village is in Amritsar which is located at 31.63°N 74.87°E / 31.63; 74.87 with an average elevation of 234 metres (768 ft).

Amritsar has a semiarid climate, typical of Northwestern India and experiences four seasons primarily: winter season (December to March) with temperature ranges from 0 °C (32 °F) to about 15 °C (59 °F), summer season (April to June) where temperatures can reach 42 °C (108 °F), monsoon season (July to September) and post-monsoon season (October to November). Annual rainfall is about 681 millimetres (26.8 in). The lowest recorded temperature is −7.6 °C (18.3 °F), was recorded on 9 December 1996 and the highest temperature, 48.1 °C (118.6 °F), was recorded on 22 May 2013.

History

It is noted as the birthplace of three influential Punjabis.

Bhagat Singh Thind

Bhagat Singh Thind, PhD, (October 3, 1892 – September 15, 1967) was an Indian-American Sikh writer and lecturer on spirituality who initiated an important legal battle over the rights of Indians to obtain U.S. citizenship: United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind.

United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, 261 U.S. 204 (1923), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court unanimously decided that Bhagat Singh Thind, an Indian Sikh man, was ineligible for naturalization. In 1923, Thind filed for United States citizenship under the Naturalization Act of 1906 which allowed white persons and persons of African descent to naturalize. He did not challenge the constitutionality of the racial restrictions. Instead, he attempted to have Indians classified as "white."

Thind argued that as a high-caste Indian he was "Aryan" and therefore "Caucasian". The Court found that "the Aryan theory, as a racial basis, seems to be discredited by most, if not all, modern writers on the subject of ethnology," and noted that "the Caucasic division of the human family is 'in point of fact the most debatable field in the whole range of anthropological studies.'"

Dr. Thind was also the first Sikh to serve in the U.S. Army (a few months before the end of World War I), and successfully fought for the right to wear the turban while in uniform.

Jagat Singh Thind

Jagat Singh Thind, younger brother of Bhagat Singh Thind, was among the 376 passengers (340 Sikhs, 24 Muslims, and 12 Hindus, all British subjects) of the ship Komagata Maru. Arriving in Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, on May 23, 1914, they hoped to immigrate to a better life and educational system. However, due to the racist immigration policy of the Dominion of Canada at that time, they were denied entry and the ship was forced to leave on July 23, 1914. Returning to India, a number of passengers were killed in an incident with police. (See Komagata Maru incident.) On May 23, 1914, Dr. Bhagat Singh Thind's youngest brother, Jagat Singh Thind, was amongst the 376 passengers (340 Sikhs, 24 Muslims, and 12 Hindus) who arrived in Burrard Inlet, Vancouver from the Indian sub-continent in hopes for a better life and better educational system. However, due to the racist immigration policy of the Dominion of Canada, the ship was forced to leave on July 23, 1914.

On the voyage back to India many on board endured hardships by the hands of the British. Thus inciting a riot, which resulted in many Indians being abused, jailed, or killed. This riot incident is known as "Budge Budge Riot". Fortunately Jagat eventually made his way back to his village Taragarh Talawa.

Dalbir Chetan

Dalbir Singh Jhand known as Punjabi writer Dalbir Chetan was a famous Punjabi short-story writer, the author of four books of short stories titled: Rishteyian De Aar Paar, Raat Baraate, Khara Badal and Mehndi Bazaar.

Mehndi Bazaar was translated into seven South-East Asian languages, and many of his stories were translated into Urdu, English, Hindi, Oriya, Telugu and Gujarati; some were also dramatized for television. His story Mehndi Bazaar is also part of MIT OpenCourseWare(OCW) South Asian literature and culture coursework of top University Massachusetts Institute of Technology of USA.

Books of Dalbir Chetan

Dalbir Chetan was a famous Punjabi short-story writer, the author of four books of short stories titled:

He edited an anthology entitled Asi Javaab Dinde Haan, which won him appreciation. His story Mehndi Bazaar was also part of MIT Open course as mentioned above.

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Tourist places near Taragarh Talawa with in 50 KM