Ludhiana Tourism in Punjab
Ludhiana is a beautiful city in Punjab. It is the largest city in the state located 100 km west from state capital Chandigarh and is on NH 95. It is National Highway 1New Delhi Amritsar well connected to New Delhi by road, frequent train service and by air. A substantial flow of immigration can be seen during the crop harvesting season due to migration of laborers from states like Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa and Delhi. It has an area of about 310 km². The city stands on the old bank of the Sutlej river spreading 13 km south of its present course. It is a major industrial center of northern India. Ludhiana has a large NRI population living abroad in Canada, and the U.S.
It has had a long history and was originally known as Lodi-Ana (The Lodi’s Place) during the Lodi Dynasty under which the city was created. “In the reign of Sikandar lodi, the people about Ludhiana were oppressed by the plundering Baluchis, and applied to the Emperor for assistance. Sikandar,, sent two of his Lodi chiefs who settled on the present site of the Ludhiana city. The Lodi dynasty was overthrown by Babar; and the Lodis of Ludhiana sunk to the position of ordinary subjects of the Mughal Empire. The Mughals established a strong government at Sirhind, which itself was a sarkar (division) of the Delhi subah (province), and attached Ludhiana as a pargana.
Nadir Shah is said to have ordered a general massacre of the inhabitants of Ludhiana on the account of some petty fault, but it seems doubtful that he did.
The fall of Sirhind marked the last vestige of Mughal control over the area, and Ludhiana was left in possession of the Rais. The rule of the Rais is still spoken of as being very mild.
Around 1785, the Sutlej changed in course so that Ludhiana was no longer situated on its banks. In 1798, Ludhiana was attacked by the Sikhs under Bedi Sahib Singh of Una. Upon the Bedi’s siege of Ludhiana, the Rais called in British mercenary George Thomas to help with the defense of the city. On Thomas’s approach, Bedi retreated to the other side of the river
Maharaja Ranjit Singh crossed the Sutlej in 1806 in his first expedition against the Cis-Sutlej states and stripped the Rais of all their possessions, including Ludhiana. The city was occupied but not immediately annexed to the Lahore state.
By the end of 1809, The Treaty with the Rajah of Lahore was signed in which the Rajah agreed to remain north and west of the Sutlej. British troops were permanently stationed in Ludhiana, and they established a cantonment to further consolidate their occupation.
By the British doctrine of lapse, Ludhiana came under official control of the East India Company. Following the First Afghan War, Ludhiana became the residence of the exiled family of Shah Shuja. The British cantonment was abandoned in 1854. During the Indian Rebellion of 1857 Deputy-Commissioner Ricketts [disambiguation needed] crushed a rebellion in Ludhiana with the assistance of the chiefs of Nabha and Maler Kotla.
Sukhdev Thapar, who was hanged along with Bhagat Singh and Rajguru, was born in Ludhiana. Ludhiana consists of the Old City and the New City or the residential and official quarters of the Colonial British encampment, traditionally known as Civil Lines; this is as opposed to the Army Lines, which are no longer extant as the British Cantonment was abandoned in 1845
The whole area around: is now mostly unplanned residential communities, with many polluting industries set up in houses due to lack of enforcement of zoning laws.
Ludhiana features a semiarid climate with three defined seasons; summer, monsoon and winter. . Ludhiana on average sees roughly 730 mm of precipitation annually. So take a trip to Ludhiana as every part of Punjab is worth visiting .
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