Tanda is a town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 in Gujrat District

Gujrat District

Gujrat is a district of Punjab Province in Pakistan. It is an ancient district located in between two famous rivers, the Jhelum and Chenab. Because of its proximity with the rivers the land is good for cultivation with rice and sugar cane as main crops...

 in the Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i province of Punjab

Punjab (Pakistan)

Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...

. It is a Union council

Union Councils of Pakistan

A sherwan or village council in Pakistan is an elected local government body consisting of 21 councillors, and headed by a nazim and a naib nazim...

, an administrative subdivision of Gujrat Tehsil

Gujrat Tehsil

Gujrat Tehsil is a subdivision of Gujrat District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The tehsil is administratively subdivided into 65 Union Councils....

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History

The word Tanda means "traveling body or gangs" in the Labanki

Lubanki

Lubanki, also known as Labanki, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Labanas tribal grouping in Punjab. It is classified as a form or dialect of Punjabi. Lubanki has been spoken in Rajasthan and Gujrat areas and some areas of Pakistan. The Punjabi word tanda is allegedly of Lubanki origin and...

 language. Before the Partition of Punjab in 1947 the town had a large population of Sikhs belonging to the Labana

Labana

Labanas are a Punjabi tribe. The Labanas of Punjab region are mostly Sikhs, with a small minority of Muslims and Hindus.- History:According to British records 33% of the Labana were baptised Sikhs and were found primarily in the Lahore, Gujranwala, and Sialkot areas...

 community. Labanas were brought in by Choudhery of Mota(an adjacent village)to protect them from the gangs of thiefs use to come down from Kashmir mountain to loot the villagers. After partition they migrated to East Punjab

East Punjab

East Punjab was the part of the Punjab region that went to India following the Partition of the Punjab Province of British India between India and Pakistan in 1947...

, conversely Gujjar

Gujjar

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, Malik

Malik

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 and Mirza

Mirza

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 tribes from Kashmir

Kashmir

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 and East Punjab migrated into the Tanda area at the same time. Labanas established a community school in Tanda for the free education of their community,for this cause their tribe decided that no women will wear jewelry and all held should be deposited for the establishment of school. This school with boarding house very quickly established its repo and even before partition considered as one of the best school in the zone.

Geography

Tanda

Tanda

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 is located at 32.70°N 74.36°E. Tanda

Tanda

Tanda may refer to:places* Tanda, Côte d'Ivoire* Tanda, Egypt* Tanda, Gujrat* Tanda, belakang belindov candra* Tanda, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa*Tanda, Nigertowns in India* Tanda, Ambedaker Nagar* Urmar Tanda* Tanda, Rampurothers* Tanda , a coaster...

 is the name of a small locality, which is a well known small city of Gujrat

Gujrat

Gujrat is a city in Pakistan. It is the capital of Gujrat District and the Gujrat Tehsil subdivision in the Punjab Province. People living in Gujrat refer to themselves as Gujratis, which sometimes leads to confusion with people from the Indian state of Gujarat which adjoins Pakistan...

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Demography

The population is over 99% Muslim

Muslim

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. Most people in the town speak Punjabi

Punjabi language

Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region . For Sikhs, the Punjabi language stands as the official language in which all ceremonies take place. In Pakistan, Punjabi is the most widely spoken language...

, though almost all of them can also speak national language of Pakistan, Urdu. English

English language

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is spoken by educated elite.

Education

The higher secondery school in the town, Government Higher Secondery School, has nurtured many brilliant students over the years which have gone to make a name is larger Pakistani cities and overseas.