Chandola is a North India

North India

North India, known natively as Uttar Bhārat or Shumālī Hindustān , is a loosely defined region in the northern part of India. The exact meaning of the term varies by usage...

n surname

Surname

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, frequent among brahmin

Brahmin

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s and mostly used in the India

India

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n state of Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand

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. They are said to have come to Uttarakhand from Gujarat/Punjab and first settled in chandok Bijnor

Bijnor

Bijnor variously spelt as Bijnaur and Bijnour, is a city and a municipal board in Bijnor district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India...

 and then moved to Raii village (often called Chandola Raii to distinguish it from villages with similar names) in District Pauri Garhwal. In the present generation. Chandolas have also settled in Kumaon where they are primarily located around the village of Vijaypur which is 16 km from Kanda. Chandola caste is a high class brahmin of Uttranchal and religious people. The main village is Pokhari and Del Mal in Vijaipur, Distt- Bageshwar in Kumaon.

Chandola in Kumaon Region

Chandola in Kumaon

Kumaon Division

For Kumaoni/Kumauni People see Kumauni PeopleKumaon or Kumaun is one of the two regions and administrative divisions of Uttarakhand, a mountainous state of northern India, the other being Garhwal. It includes the districts of Almora, Bageshwar, Champawat, Nainital, Pithoragarh, and Udham Singh Nagar...

 region, basically in villages of Kanda mainly near Vijaypur. Ist devata is Dhauli Nag, staying 1 Km from Vijaypur.
Yearly mela

Mela

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/bhandara is celebrated. Now these days Chandolas are working all over world. But Kumaoni chandolas are in several generation and still limited numbers, and inherited from a family

Family

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Notable people with surname Chandola

• Anoop Chandola
  Anoop Chandola
  Anoop Chandola , is an American linguist-anthropologist, originally from Pauri India, where he was raised in a priestly Brahmin family.He was educated at the Christian Messmore Intermediate College of Pauri...
  
  
• Tarani Chandola
• Hira Ballabh Chandola
• Kailash Prakash Chandola
• Lalit Mohan Chandola

See also

• Garhwali people
  Garhwali people
  Garhwali people are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group who primarily live in the Garhwal Himalayas of the north-western Indian state of Uttarakhand...
  
  
• Garhwal division
  Garhwal Division
  Garhwal is the north-western region and administrative division of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand which is home to the Garhwali people. Lying in the Himalayas, It is bounded on the north by Tibet, on the east by Kumaon region, on the south by Uttar Pradesh state, and on the north-west by...
  
  
• Kumaon
  Kumaon Division
  For Kumaoni/Kumauni People see Kumauni PeopleKumaon or Kumaun is one of the two regions and administrative divisions of Uttarakhand, a mountainous state of northern India, the other being Garhwal. It includes the districts of Almora, Bageshwar, Champawat, Nainital, Pithoragarh, and Udham Singh Nagar...
  
  
• Kumauni people
  Kumauni people
  Kumauni or Kumaoni are people from Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, India.They include all those who speak the Kumaoni language or any of its numerous dialects, living in the Almora, Bageshwar, Champawat, Pithoragarh, Nainital,Bijnor,Udham Singh Nagar,Moradabad, districts of Uttarakhand,...