Buttar Kalan is a village in the

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(India), located on the Moga- Barnala Highway 703. Buttar village is located in Moga tehsil of Moga district in Punjab, India. It is Located 17 km away from Moga, which is both district & sub-district headquarter of Buttar village. As per 2009 stats, Butter Khurd is the gram panchayat of Buttar village. Khurd and Kalan are Persian words meaning "small" and "big" respectively. When two villages have the same name, they are differentiated by adding "Khurd" or "Kalan" to their names. The PIN code for the village is 142040, and village contains a post office.

Administration

Buttar Kalan village is administrated by a sarpanch who is elected representative of the village. As of 2019, Buttar village comes under the Nihal Singh Wala assembly constituency and Faridkot parliamentary constituency. Moga is the nearest town to Buttar for all major economic activities. Currently due to the population size, Buttar village elects 2 sarpanchs for Dhillon patti and Bhullar patti.

Culture and People

Punjabi is the

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as well as the

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of the village, predominated by the Jatt people of the

Buttar Buttar is a Jat people, Jat clan and surname found in the Punjab region of both India and Pakistan. List of notable people Notable people with this surname include: * Muhammad Javed Buttar, former justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan * Ma ...

village. Genetic studies conducted of this area confirm steady amounts of

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ancestry and detectable levels of Dravidian influences in the population. As in other parts of

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, skin color ranges from almost white to almost black in Buttar, however, the most common skin colors are medium brown and dark brown. Exposure to the sun accounts for the darker complexion of

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farmworkers. As a rule, the hair color is almost always dark brown and frequently curly in texture, but traces of blondism in hair and eye color are present in small percentages. Most of the population is Sikh and Hindu, with few Muslim families.

Religion

The village is currently predominated by the

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s, with Hindu and a very few Muslim families established in the village. Currently village have gurudwara, Hindu temples and mosques for the worshipers. Baisakhi is celebrated every year in the village and Baisakhi fair is celebrated for 3 days in April of every year.

History

Buttar is in an area established during the Vedic times by Central Asian immigrants. It was home to a secondary school that attracted students from nearby villages. There are many political celebrities from this village. Buttar has steadily grown, but it split into two parts due to the Panchayati Department, and currently it is known by Dhillon Buttar, and Bhullar Buttar. Buttar has held tournaments every year for youngsters and other people. Three-fourths of the people from this village live abroad in places such as Canada, USA, and Australia.

Education

Buttar currently has 2 government-run high schools established in the village during the British era. Both of the separate schools are boys and girls high school. Before independence, these schools were the only source of education for boys and girls.

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