Rankhandi

Rankhandi
Rankhandi
village
Rankhandi

Location in Uttar Pradesh, India

Coordinates: 29°37′N 77°39′E / 29.617°N 77.650°E / 29.617; 77.650Coordinates: 29°37′N 77°39′E / 29.617°N 77.650°E / 29.617; 77.650
Country  India
State Uttar Pradesh
District Saharanpur
Elevation 1,000 m (3,000 ft)
Population
  Total 17,000
Languages
  Official Hindi
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 247554
Nearest city Deoband
Literacy 80%
Vidhan Sabha constituency Muzaffar Nagar

Rankhandi is a village in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, located 7 kilometers from Deoband. It served as a research site for the Cornell University researchers in Anthropology / Sociology. Cornell maintains research documents on the Rankhandi project in its archives.[1]

The village is largely inhabited by the Pundir Rajputs and has been a major centre of education in the area for many years. Its intermediate level school is the Thakur Phool Singh Memorial Intercollege (formerly Kissan Vidyalya). Other castes in the village include the Brahmin, Kori, Gosain, Barhai and Ranghar.

Cornell also helped establish a hostel, called the Cornell Hostel, for the Thakur Phool Singh School. Now there is also a degree college called Kripal Singh memorial providing graduation and masters degree in various courses.

Notes

  1. Inventory to the Papers of John T. Hitchcock
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