Landhaura

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| subdivision_name2 = [[Haridwar district|Haridwar]]
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| population_total = 28786
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| postal_code = 247664
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'''Landhaura''' is a town and a [[nagar panchayat]] in [[Haridwar district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[Uttarakhand]].

== Landhaura Pargana ==

Landhaura was a zamidari of North [[India]], which was founded by a khubad gotra [[Gurjar]] Cheiftain.<ref name="cite">{{cite web |url = https://roorkee.cantt.gov.in/history/ |title = Roorkee Cantonment Board - History|publisher = Google |access-date = 2 September 2021 |author = Google }}</ref>

When the area came under British occupation in 1803, it was ruled by [[Raja Ram Dayal Singh]] and "First Freedom Fighter" [[Vijay Singh Gujjar]]. Their present descendant [[Pranav Singh ]] is a legislator for Khanpur constituency and a former cabinet-rank official in the State [[Government of Uttarakhand]].
[[Kranti]] movie is based on Landhaura directed by [[Manoj Kumar]] .
<ref>{{cite book|title = The poison in the gift: ritual, prestation, and the dominant caste in a north Indian village|author = Raheja|publisher = University of Chicago Press|year = 1988|pages = 1–2|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=V6oYqw1BWAQC&pg=PA1|id = |first = Gloria Goodwin|isbn = 0226707288|author-link = Gloria Goodwin Raheja}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
| title = "The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India (Cambridge South Asian Studies)"
| publisher = Eric Stokes
|isbn=9780511563416}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
| title = "A Princely Impostor?: The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal"
| publisher = Partha Chatterjee}}</ref>

==Geography==
Landhaura is located at {{Coord|29.82|N|77.93|E|}}.<ref>[http://wikimapia.org/country/India/Uttaranchal/Landaura/ Wikimapia page for Landhaura]</ref> 

==Demographics==
{{As of|2011}} India [[census]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archive-date=2004-06-16|title= Census of India 2011: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)|access-date=2008-11-01|publisher= Census Commission of India}}</ref> Landhaura had a population of 28786. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Landhaura has an average literacy rate of 72%, lower than the national average of 73%: male literacy is 82%, and female literacy is 62%. In Landhaura, 22% of the population is under 6 years of age.
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|title=Religions in Landhaura
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{{bar percent|[[Hindus]]|orange|39}}
{{bar percent|[[Muslims]]|green|60}}
{{bar percent|[[Jainism|Jains]]|pink|0.5}}
{{bar percent|Others†|black|0.5}}
|caption=Distribution of religions<br />
†<small>Includes [[Sikh]]s (0.2%), [[Buddhism|Buddhists]] (<0.2%).</small>}}

==Politics==
It is an electoral constituency of [[Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly]] in [[Haridwar district]].<ref>[http://haridwar.nic.in/publicrepresentatives.htm List of Public Representatives from Haridwar] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080219054751/http://haridwar.nic.in/publicrepresentatives.htm |date=2008-02-19 }} Official website of the [[Haridwar]].</ref><ref>[http://archive.eci.gov.in/Feb2007/pollupd/ac/states/s28/aconst23.htm Landhaura- Uttarakhand]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} [[Election Commission of India]], State Elections 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.amarujala.com/dehradun/crime/landhaura-conflict-on-rumor-there-was-no-insult-of-religious-text/ खुलासा: अफवाह पर जला लंढौरा, नहीं हुआ था धर्मग्रंथ का अपमान]</ref><ref>[http://www.amarujala.com/dehradun/police-under-house-arrest-ex-mla-pranav-singh-champion-in-roorkee/ video: बवाल के बाद पहली बार रुड़की पहुंचे चैंपियन, हरीश रावत पर लगाए गंभीर आरोप]</ref><ref>[http://www.amarujala.com/dehradun/pranav-singh-champion-call-for-mahapanchayat-in-roorkee/ लंढौरा बवाल के बाद चैंपियन ने बुलाई महापंचायत, पुलिस अलर्ट]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://archive.is/20070223021334/http://210.212.78.56/landhaura/English/indexvisitor.html Official website of Landhaura]
* [http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft5x0nb3v0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print A song about the king of Landhaura]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230057/http://gurjarsforum.proboards3.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1159692716 History of Landhora]
* [http://wikimapia.org/country/India/Uttaranchal/Landaura/ Landhaura on wikimapia]

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