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Jhulasan is a small village located in district of Mehsana, Kadi Taluka in the state of Gujarat, India.
Demographics
Jhulasan is an important Railway station between Ahmedabad and Mehsana railway route. There are large petroleum wells in this village land area. It has a population of about 5,000. The majority of the residents are farmers. About 1700 people from Jhulasan have migrated to the US and Canada. Other families have migrated to the nearby cities of Kalol and Ahmedabad.
American astronaut Sunita Williams' father, Deepakbhai Pandya, a doctor in Boston, migrated to the USA in the early 1960s.[1][2]
Religious
Jhulasan village is one of the most developed villages in Kadi Taluka. Most of the population in this village are Patels. Thakor, Raval, Rabari, Gujjars, Suthars, Barots,Scheduled Castes , and Ravals are minorities.
Temples
There are many large temples in this village. The Dola Mata (goddess) temple is the biggest one and worldwide popular.[2] There is a Swaminarayan Temple (Under NarNarayan Dev Gadi), Radha Vallabh Temple (Radhe Redhe), Ramji Mandir, Sat Kaival Ashram, Gogleshvar Mahadev, Nilkantheswar Mahadev Temple (Mahadev Vas) with Shitla Mata and Hanuman Temple, Pipaleshavar Mahadev Temple, Narayan Mahadev Temple, Varahi Mata Temple, Vihat Mata Temple and few other temples.
Education
Jhulasan Anupam Prathmik Shala(primary school) provides education from 1st to 7th grade and C.P.Gajjar High School provides education from 8th grade to 10th grade. To get a higher education after that, one has to go to the nearby village Pansar or Vadu or the cities of Kalol or Ahmedabad. From 1870 to 1910, Primary School was at Niilkanth Mahadev Temple (Mahadev Vas). The current Jhulasan Prathmik School was built in 1910 by Maharaja Sayajirao since Jhulasan village belonged to Gaikavad Sarkar. In 1965, Maganlal Chimanlal Mistry (Suthar) built C. P. Gajjar High School in memory of his late father Chimanlal Purushottamdas Gajjar, so the school name is C. P. Gajjar High School.
References
- ↑ Sunita Williams visits her ancestral village in Gujarat(21 September 2007).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 In Sunita Williams’s native village, goddess Dola is a Muslim woman. The Times of India(4 April 2013).