Loharu

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Place details

Locality: Loharu
Region: Haryana
Country: India
Population: 13,937
Timezone: Asia/Kolkata

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Key facts

Settlement.name: Loharu
Settlement.other_name: Luharu
Settlement.settlement_type: City
Settlement.pushpin_map: India Haryana#India3
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: right
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Haryana, India
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Haryana
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Bhiwani
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric
Settlement.elevation_m: 262
Settlement.population_total: 11421
Settlement.population_as_of: 2001
Settlement.population_density_km2: auto
Settlement.demographics_type1: Languages
Settlement.demographics1_title1: Official

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Etymology
History
Monuments
Loharu Fort
Hindu tombs
Education
Transport
Villages
See also
References
Further reading

Loharu is a city, municipal committee and assembly constituency, in the Bhiwani district of the Indian state of Haryana. It is the administrative headquarters of one of the four administrative sub-divisions of the district and covers 119 villages. It is also a railway junction station.

The city's main commercial hub is its Anaaj Mandi (grain market), which was built by Sir Aminuddin Ahmed Khan in the year 1937. The Mandi is unique in design as it contains both residential and commercial premises for the merchants around a large central open space. It consists of 104 shops or 52 'Jodas' (couplet) as it was popularly called. The tax-free Mandi in its prime gathered goods from far and near for trade and contributed considerably to the prosperity in the region.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Loharu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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