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Sudhar

human settlement in India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ31789583
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Gurusar Sudhar is a township in the district of Ludhiana in Punjab, India. It falls in the Raikot sub-division.

Demographics

According to census 2001 it has a population of 5728, of which 3003 are males and 2725 are females. The number of households is 1102.

Geography

Sudhar is divided into the vague and somewhat overlapping areas of Sudhar village, Sudhar Bazaar, Gurusar Sudhar, and Pul Sudhar. It is located nearly at the middle of the road connecting Mullanpur and Raikot; and is flanked by the townships/villages of Halwara, Ghuman, Hissowal, Aitiana, Akalgarh, Rattowal, Toosa, Sidhwan and Bhora. The Abohar Canal, which is a distributary of Satluj rivers and a tributary of Indus river, flows through it.

Educational institutions

The place is home to G.H.G. Khalsa College (since 1948), G.H.G. Khalsa College of Pharmacy (1984), G.H.G. Khalsa College of Education (1955), Khalsa Collegiate Public Senior Secondary School and G.H.G. Khalsa Senior Secondary School which are counted amongst the pioneering institutions of education in rural Punjab. It also has a couple of primary and secondary schools. The two Kendriya Vidyalayas, one Air Force School and Jatindera Greenfield School are well respected schools and attract a large number of students from the region.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Sudhar” as human settlement in India. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 1102, 1948, 1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Sudhar, human and settlement can be independently traced.
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