Kahlwan
Kahlwan is a village in Jalandhar district of Punjab State, India.
Kahlwan is a village in Jalandhar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 22 kilometres (14 mi) from Jalandhar, which is both district and sub-district headquarters of Kahlwan. The village is administrated by a Sarpanch who is an elected representative of village as per the constitution of India and Panchayati raj (India).
Khalwan is famous for being the birthplace and area of activity of notorious gangster Sukha Khalwan.This village is also linked with Sardar Lehna Singh Kahlon of the Bhangi Misl, who ruled Lahore between 1765 and 1797 and his son Chet who ruled for 2 years before losing Lahore to Maharaja Ranjit Singh - the Kahlons in this village are from his Tubbar (clan) as the Jathera of people in Kahlwan is Village Saidowal near Gurdaspur which is where Lehna's grandfather came from with the mother village in Kartarpur being Mustfapur which is where the grandfather settled - see Sir Leppel Griffin's Panjab Chiefs under Bhangi Sardars.
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Worth seeing in and around Kahlwan
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Jang-e-Azadi Memorial
Jang-e-Azadi Memorial is a memorial and museum in Kartarpur town in Jalandhar district of Punjab, India, in memory of contribution and sacrifices made by the Punjabi community in Indian independence movement. The memorial was built over an area of 25 acres at the cost of ₹300 crore.
2.6 km · memorial and museum · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kahlwan
- Airports
- Sri Guru Ram Das Ji (ATQ), 75 km · Halwara (HWR), 76 km · Allama Iqbal (LHE), 106 km
- Stations
- Kartarpur railway station, 2.7 km
- Amritsar → Kahlwan101 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · ₹790–990
- Halwara → Kahlwan214 km · quickest by road, 4h 52m · ₹1,800–2,250
- Chandigarh → Kahlwan307 km · quickest by road, 5h 49m · ₹2,280–2,840
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No local-transport research exists yet for Kahlwan
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kahlwan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Kahlwan
Kahlwan is 12 km from Jalandhar, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kartarpurhuman settlement in India2.4 km
- Ambgarhvillage in Jalandhar district2.7 km
- Sarai-khasvillage in Punjab, India2.3 km