DINANAGAR

Dinanagar town is situated about 14 Kms North-East of Gurdaspur. It was founded by Adinabeg in 1730, on the bank of Hasli or Shah Nahar as his residence and cantonment. He seems to have exercised his government from this town.
Dinanagar was a favourite summer resort of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Dinanagar was one centre where Maharaja Ranjit Singh usally held his Durbar during the summer. It was the summer capital of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. He spent two months of May & June every year at Dinanagar. It was at Dinanagar that in May 1838 he received the MACNAGHTEN mission which negotiated the proposed alliance for placing Shah –Shuja on the throne of Kabul. After annexation of Punjab to the British territory on 29th March 1849, a new district of Adinanagar was constituted with Dinanagar as its Head quarters. Gurdaspur Tehsil, a greater portion of Batala Tehsil and 181 villages of Pathankot Tehsil were included in the Adinanagar district . In July 1849 the civil and Military escorts were transferred to Batala as Dinanagar was thought unhealthy and in 1852 it became part of Gurdaspur district. The Rowlatt ACT passed in March 1919 invested the Government with extraordinary powers to suppress any kind of political agitation. A complete hartal was observed in Dinanagar along with Gurdaspur, Pathankot and Batala.
In 1920 non cooperation movement was started by Gandhi Ji due to alliance with Khilafat leader Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy and Rowllat Act. The people all over the country responded to the call of Gandhi Ji. The Government made every effort to stop the movement and a large number of persons courted imprisonment. A durbar was held at Dinanagar to discuss the situation created by Gandhi Ji by H.Harcourt, the Deputy Commissioner. Swami Sawtantra Nand founded Dayanand Math in 1938 - an institution which became a centre of learning and Ayurveda. In the course of time Adinanagar has been known for its Loi, Shawl and wood industries. A number of conduit pipe manufacturing units have been set up here after 1947. Dina Nagar is spread over 14.36 sq.km.
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Dayananad Math dinanagar

Posted by Mohit Vashisht on Sunday, September 27, 2009

In 1932 AD Swami Sawtantra Nand decided about foundation of Dayanand math. He got a lot of invitations from various places. But at last Swami ji decided to made it on cottage of swami Joginder Pal ji, Dinanagar.

In starting , lot of people opposed it as they were not agreed with the name. According to them Swami Dayananad was not in favour of math. But according to swami Sawtantra Nand ji, Swami Dayanand was not against math, but he was against some fake customs prevailing in math. And as the time being passed these oppositions decrease to least and then finally ends.

As that land near cottage was not plain, Swami ji himself started to work on that land. Swami ji was joined by one of their disciple Pt. Ram Chandara ji in 1941 AD . After that members or followers of math starts increasing and Pt. Ram Chandara ji was made head of them. When swami Sawtantra Nand ji was busy in other works for his country, then whole of work of math was in hands of Pt. Ram Chandara ji , Vaidh Sai Das ji and Kundan Lal jI Musafir. As at that time revolution of free India was already started against britishers , freedom fighters of country were given shelter in math. Swami Sawtantra Nand ji himself participated in Leave India Andolan .

On 24 august 1953 AD Pt Bhim Sen inaugurated the Dayanand Sanskrit school for vedic studies. And at that time Pt. Ram Chandra was active teacher of this school.

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