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Amra Kalan
Amra Kalan is a village and union councils of Pakistan, union council of Gujrat District, in the Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab province of Pakistan. It is part of Kharian Tehsil and is located at an altitude of 219 metres. History Amra Kalan was named after its first settler Amar Khan in the 16th century. The Battle of Chillianwala was fought during the Second Anglo-Sikh War in the nearby villages of Chillianwala and Rasul on 13 January 1849. Before the creation of Pakistan it was home to Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus. During the bloody partition in 1947, Sikhs and Hindus migrated to India and Muslim refugees (Muhajirs) coming from India were given the abandoned properties left behind by the Sikhs. Before 1960 people of Amra Kalan largely depended on agriculture. Small land holdings and economic conditions forced people to look for alternatives. From the early 1960s, many inhabitants started migrating to European countries; mainly the United Kingdom, Greece, Holland, Denmark an ...
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