Nurpur, India

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?Nurpur Himachal Pradesh • India
Nurpur
Coordinates: 32°18′N 75°54′E / 32.3, 75.9
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
Area • Elevation	• 643 m (2,110 ft)
District(s)	Kangra
Population	9,045 (2001)

Coordinates: 32°18′N 75°54′E / 32.3, 75.9 Nurpur is a city and a municipal council in Kangra district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

1 Geography
2 History
3 Demographics
4 References

[edit] Geography

Nurpur is located at 32.3° N 75.9° E^[1]. It has an average elevation of 643 metres (2109 feet).

The Brij Raj Swami temple inside the Nurpur fort is a historical temple and home to a much revered deity of the local population. The Nagni Maata temple, about 10km from the town, is also famous.

Nurpur is famous for its orchards, which grow crops of mango, oranges, leechi and amla. Nurpur is also famous for poultry farming and main farmers are saini poultries(wasa wazarian),nagni poultries(Badwal near jassur).

[edit] History

Nurpur was known as Dhamadi until a visit from Noorjehan, the queen of emperor Nuruddin Salim Jahangir (1569-1627) of the Mughal Dynasty and ruler of India at that time. Local legend has it that the queen was so taken by the natural beauty of the town that she decided to stay there for the rest of her life. This put the local administration into a fix--they didn't want their peaceful town to become the hub of the mughal domination and influenced by the politics. So, they suggested to the queen that a long stay in their town could spoil her beauty and that she might be afflicted with local diseases. Horrified, she left, but the name of the town was changed to Nurpur in 1622, in honour of a queen who had instantly fallen in love with this place.

Before 1947, Nurpur was a princely state ruled by the Pathania clan of Rajputs. The Pathanias (or Tomar, Tanwar clan of Chandravanshi rulers) had ruled there for more than a millennium, according to recorded history.

Kunwar Ram Singh Pathania, Justice Mehar Chand Mahajan, Bakshi Tek Chand,sat mahajan (former minister and MP),Kewal singh pathania, Rakesh Pathania,ajay mahajan are some eminent personalities from Nurpur.nurpur is also famous for silk and pasmina shawals.The reputated buisness men from nurpur are Mr Amit Guta ,Rakesh Mahajan and Yogesh Mahajan.

[edit] Demographics

As of 2001, according to the India census^[2], Nurpur had a population of 9045. Men constitute 52% of the population and women 48%. Nurpur has an average literacy rate of 78%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 81%, and female literacy is 75%. In Nurpur, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.according to a local myth , a black idol of Lord Krishna -worshipped by his famous devotee Mira Bai is located in the Nurpur Fort