Chhattiana is a village in the

Giddarbaha Giddarbaha is a town and a municipal council in Muktsar district, in the Indian state of Punjab. It is from the city of Malout, from the city of Bathinda and from the city of Muktsar. It lies on NH-7, which connects Fazilka (Punjab) to Ma ...

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a Zila (country subdivision), district including the designated populated place that ser ...

Sri Muktsar Sahib district Sri Muktsar Sahib district is one of the 23 districts in the Indian state of Punjab. The capital city of district is Sri Muktsar Sahib. The district itself was historically referred to as Khidrane Di Dhaab. There are four tehsils in the district ...

Punjab, India Punjab () is a States and union territories of India, state in northwestern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab, Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the States and union territories of India, Indian states ...

Economy

As is common in the

Punjab region Punjab (; ; also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb) is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern Pakistan and no ...

agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

is the main occupation of the locals and the main source of income. The main crops of the village are,

wheat Wheat is a group of wild and crop domestication, domesticated Poaceae, grasses of the genus ''Triticum'' (). They are Agriculture, cultivated for their cereal grains, which are staple foods around the world. Well-known Taxonomy of wheat, whe ...

and

cotton Cotton (), first recorded in ancient India, is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus '' Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure ...

Rice growing Rice is a cereal grain and in its domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa. Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice)—or, much less commonly, ' ...

is started few years ago in the area. As of irrigation,

Monsoon A monsoon () is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in Atmosphere of Earth, atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annu ...

greatly affects the agriculture in the region as nearly 70% of the rain falls in July–September by the Monsoon while people use canal (Jaito Rajbaha) and tube wells also.

Geography

Chhattiana is approximately centered at . It's located in the

Indian Punjab Punjab () is a state in northwestern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the north and northeast, Haryana to the south and southeast, a ...

. The nearest city and railway station,

lies just 15 km in the south-west. The city and district of

Bathinda Bathinda is a city and municipal corporation in Punjab, India. The city is the administrative headquarters of Bathinda district. It is located in northwestern India in the Malwa Region, west of the capital city of Chandigarh and is the fifth ...

lies to its south-west (32 km) and

Sri Muktsar Sahib Sri Muktsar Sahib ( ), often referred to as simply Muktsar, is a historical city and district headquarters in Punjab, India. The 2011 census of India put the total population of Sri Muktsar Sahib municipality at 117,085, making it the 14th large ...

city to its north-west (22 km).

Buttar Sarinh Buttar Sarinh , incorrect spellings include Buttar Shrin and Buttar Shri, is a small village in the Giddarbaha tehsil of Sri Muktsar Sahib district in Punjab, India. It's located on the Sri Muktsar Sahib-Bathinda national Highway 754. Geogra ...

(3 km), Bhalaiana (4 km) and Rukhala (4 km) are the surrounding villages. Chhattiana is (6 km) from Doda, (30 km) from

, (27 km) from Jaito and (25 km) from

Malout Malout is a town, just outside of Sri Muktsar Sahib, Muktsar Sahib city in the Muktsar district of the Indian state of Punjab, India, Punjab. It is in the southern Punjab "cotton belt", where production per kilometer is one of the highest in Ind ...

. Chhattiana known as "Greater Chhattiana" in area.

History

The tenth

Sikh Guru The Sikh gurus (Punjabi language, Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ ਗੁਰੂ; Hindi: सिख गुरु) are the spiritual masters of Sikhism, who established the religion over the course of about two and a half centuries, beginning in 1469. The year ...

, Guru Gobind Singh Sahib came to this place after the Battle of Muktsar (then ''Khidrane Dee Dhāb'', now ''Sri Muktsar Sahib'') in 1705. His soldiers asked Him for their salary as they were not paid for some time. In the meantime, one Sikh presented before the Guru with the Daswandh (1/10th or 10% of one's income) that was the gold coins. The tenth Master started distributing these coins in His soldiers as salary. The soldiers were very happy but one of the

Sikh Sikhs (singular Sikh: or ; , ) are an ethnoreligious group who adhere to Sikhism, a religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak. The term ''Si ...

-soldiers, Bhai Daan Singh, refused to take anything. When the Guru asked him that what he wants then, he replied that he wants the Sikhi, the

baptism Baptism (from ) is a Christians, Christian sacrament of initiation almost invariably with the use of water. It may be performed by aspersion, sprinkling or affusion, pouring water on the head, or by immersion baptism, immersing in water eit ...

. The Guru pleased with the answer and remarked, "You have saved the honour of the

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for

Malwa Malwa () is a historical region, historical list of regions in India, region of west-central India occupying a plateau of volcanic origin. Geologically, the Malwa Plateau generally refers to the volcanic plateau, volcanic upland north of the ...

as Bhai Mahan Singh saved it for

Majha Majha ( ''Mājhā''; ; from "mañjhlā" )Punjabi language, Punjabi: ਮਾਝਾ , is a region located in the central parts of the historical Punjab region, presently split between the republics of Pakistan and India. It extends north from the ...

". And then Bhai Daan Singh received the rites of the

Khalsa The term ''Khalsa'' refers to both a community that follows Sikhism as its religion,Khalsa: Sikhism< ...

.
Peer/Pir Sayyad Ibrahim, popularly known as Peer Brahmi or Vehmi Peer, was a Muslim recluse of the place. He was greatly influenced by the personality of the tenth Master and His

s and requested the Guru to make him a part of the

Khalsa The term ''Khalsa'' refers to both a community that follows Sikhism as its religion,Khalsa: Sikhism< ...

. He received the rites of the Khalsa in the hand of Bhai Maan Singh and got the name Ajmer Singh. Later he fought many battles from the Guru's side.
After paying the Sikh-army the Guru buried the extra coins in the ground and named the place as ''Guptsar''. After the Guru the villagers tried to get the coins but nothing found. Today, a beautiful Gurudwara Sahib, known as Gurudwara Guptsar Sahib, located outside (2 km) of the village, marks the site (see picture above).

Demographics

In 2001, as of census, the village had the total population of 3,556 with 619 households, 1,870 males and 1,686 females. Thus males constitutes 53% and females 47% of the population with the

sex ratio A sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population. As explained by Fisher's principle, for evolutionary reasons this is typically about 1:1 in species which reproduce sexually. However, many species deviate from an even sex ratio, ei ...

of 901 females per thousand males.

References

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