Sansarpur
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Sansarpur is a census village in Jalandhar district
in the India
n state
of Punjab
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, Sansarpur had a population of 4061. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Sansarpur has an average literacy rate of 75%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 79%, and female literacy is 71%. In Sansarpur, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.
In one particular Olympics, 7 players from Sansarpur represented their respective countries. 5 from India and 2 from Kenya. In present day Sansarpur though due to the lack of support from the Indian government and lack of facilities like astro turf , the standard of Hockey players emerging from this village is falling.
Jalandhar District
Jalandhar district , Jalandhar Zilā) is one of the 22 districts in the state of Punjab in North-West Republic of India. The capital is Jalandhar City...
in the India
India
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States and territories of India
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of Punjab
Punjab (India)
Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...
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Demographics
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A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
, Sansarpur had a population of 4061. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Sansarpur has an average literacy rate of 75%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 79%, and female literacy is 71%. In Sansarpur, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.
History
This village is around 300 years old. Five families at that time came to this village and descendants of them are called 'Kullar/Kular'(Jatsikh).Sports
The village in its heyday produced 14 Hockey Olympic players, who reperesented India, Kenya and Canada at the Olympics. All olympians from Sansarpur.Sansarpur has the rare distinction of having produced the largest number of Olympians from India and hence is known as the "Mecca of Indian Hockey".In one particular Olympics, 7 players from Sansarpur represented their respective countries. 5 from India and 2 from Kenya. In present day Sansarpur though due to the lack of support from the Indian government and lack of facilities like astro turf , the standard of Hockey players emerging from this village is falling.
World Famous Field Hockey Players
- Sardar Gurjit Singh Kullar,(1958) Asian games
- Sardar Gurdev SinghGurdev SinghSardar Gurdev Singh Kullar is a former Indian field hockey player, originally from Sansarpur, who now lives with his family in Leeds, England. He was part of the Indian field hockey team at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, which won the gold medal...
Kullar, Olympian - Late Sardar Udham SinghUdham SinghUdham Singh was an Indian independence activist, best known for assassinating Michael O'Dwyer in March 1940 in what has been described as an avenging of the Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre....
Kullar, Olympian - Sardar Darshan Singh(field hockey), Olympian
- Sardar Ajit Pal SinghAjit Pal SinghAjit Pal Singh was an Indian field hockey player from Sansarpur, Punjab. He was the captain of the Indian hockey team. He was conferred the Arjuna Award in 1970, and awarded it in 1972. He played at centre half position...
Kullar, Olympian - Sardar Balbir Singh Kullar, Olympian