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Chamoli district, the Glossary

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Districts of Uttarakhand
Populated places established in 1960

Adi Shankara

Adi Shankara (8th c. CE), also called Adi Shankaracharya (lit), was an Indian Vedic scholar and teacher (acharya) of Advaita Vedanta.

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Administrative divisions of Uttarakhand

The northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, comprises 2 administrative divisions.

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The Alaknanda is a turbulent Himalayan river in the Indian state of Uttarakhand and one of the two headstreams of the Ganges, the major river of Northern India and a river considered holy in Hinduism.

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Almora district

Almora is a district in the Kumaon Division of Uttarakhand state, India. Chamoli district and Almora district are districts of Uttarakhand.

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Amar Singh Thapa

Amar Singh Thapa distinguished as Badakaji Amar Singh Thapa(बडाकाजी अमर सिंह थापा), or Amar Singh Thapa The Elder, (also spelled Ambar Simha) also known by the honorific name Bada Kaji ("Senior Kaji") or Budha Kaji ("The Old Kaji"), was a Gorkhali military general, governor and warlord in the Kingdom of Nepal.

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Badrinath

Badrinath is a town and nagar panchayat in Chamoli district in the state of Uttarakhand, India.

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Badrinath Assembly constituency

Badrinath Legislative Assembly constituency is one of the 70 assembly constituencies of Uttarakhand a northern state of India.

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Badrinath Temple

Badarinath or Badarinarayana Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu.

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Bageshwar district

Bageshwar is a district of Uttarakhand state in northern India. Chamoli district and Bageshwar district are districts of Uttarakhand.

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Bedni Bugyal

Bedni Bugyal is a Himalayan Alpine meadow and a hill station, situated at an elevation of in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand state of India.

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British people

British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.

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Chamoli Gopeshwar

Chamoli Gopeshwar is a township in the Garhwal hills and a municipal board within Chamoli district.

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Chandi Prasad Bhatt

Chandi Prasad Bhatt (born 23 June 1934) is an Indian environmentalist and social activist, who founded Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) in Gopeshwar in 1964, which later became a mother-organization to the Chipko Movement, in which he was one of the pioneers.

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Chipko movement

The Chipko movement (lit) is a forest conservation movement in India.

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Cult

A cult is a group requiring unwavering devotion to a set of beliefs and practices which are considered deviant outside the norms of society, which is typically led by a charismatic and self-appointed leader who tightly controls its members.

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Cult image

In the practice of religion, a cult image is a human-made object that is venerated or worshipped for the deity, spirit or daemon that it embodies or represents.

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Dehradun

Dehradun, also known as Dehra Doon, is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

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Demographics of India

India is the most populous country in the world with one-sixth of the world's population.

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Dhauliganga River

The Dhauliganga is a turbulent Himalayan river which rises in the border regions of India and China and flows south into the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India.

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District magistrate

The district magistrate, also known as the district collector or deputy commissioner, is a career civil servant who serves as the executive head of a district's administration in India.

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Dupatta

The dupattā, also called chunni, chunari, chundari, lugda, rao/rawo, gandhi, pothi and odhni is a long shawl-like scarf traditionally worn by women in the Indian subcontinent.

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Earthquake

An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.

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Ethics

Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena.

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Family planning in India

Family planning in India is based on efforts largely sponsored by the Indian government.

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Garhwal division

Garhwal (IPA: /ɡəɽʋːɔɭ/) is one of the two administrative divisions of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Lying in the Himalayas, it is bounded on the north by Tibet, on the east by Kumaon, on the south by Uttar Pradesh state, and on the northwest by Himachal Pradesh state. It includes the districts of Chamoli, Dehradun, Haridwar, Pauri Garhwal, Rudraprayag, Tehri Garhwal, and Uttarkashi.

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Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency

Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency is one of the five Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttarakhand.

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Garhwali language

Garhwali (गढ़वळि,, in native pronunciation) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Central Pahari subgroup.

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Gauchar

Gauchar (Garhwali: Gòchàr) is a Hill Town sort of a valley town located in Karnaprayag tehsil within Chamoli district of Uttarakhand state in India.

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Gaura Devi

Gaura Devi (1925 – 1991) was a grassroots activist and a rural women community leader from India who played an important role in the Chipko movement.

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Ghangaria

Ghangaria also known as "Gobind Dham" is a small village on the way to Hemkund Sahib, a popular pilgrimage site for Sikhs which is about 6 km from here and the Valley of Flowers, a national park known for its variety of flowers about 5 km from here.

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Govindghat

Govindghat is a town in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, located at the confluence of the Alaknanda and Lakshman Ganga rivers.

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Gurdwara Hemkund Sahib

Gurdwara Hemkund Sahib is a Sikh place of worship (gurdwara) and pilgrimage site in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India.

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Gurkha

The Gurkhas or Gorkhas, with the endonym Gorkhali (Nepali: गोर्खाली), are soldiers native to the Indian subcontinent, chiefly residing within Nepal and some parts of North India.

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Hindi

Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.

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Hindus

Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.

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Indian Administrative Service

The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the administrative arm of the All India Services of Government of India.

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Indian Standard Time

Indian Standard Time (IST), sometimes also called India Standard Time, is the time zone observed throughout the Republic of India, with a time offset of UTC+05:30.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Kamiz

Kamiz (كميز, also Romanized as Kamīz and Kemīz; also known as Kambīz and Kūmīz) is a village in Kah Rural District, Central District, Davarzan County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran.

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Kamla Pant

Kamla Pant, born (18 December 1956), Chamoli (Uttarakhand), is a feminist, politician and women's rights activist.

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Karnaprayag

Karnaprayag is a town and municipal board in the Chamoli District in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

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Karnaprayag Assembly constituency

Karnaprayag Legislative Assembly constituency is one of the 70 assembly constituencies of Uttarakhand a northern state of India.

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Khasas

Khasas (Sanskrit: खश) were an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe and a late Janapada kingdom from Himalayan regions of northern Indian subcontinent mentioned in the various historical Indian inscriptions and ancient Indian Hindu and Tibetan literature.

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Kumaoni language

Kumaoni (कुमाऊँनी) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by over two million people of the Kumaon region of the state of Uttarakhand in northern India and parts of Doti region in Western Nepal.

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Language

Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary.

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List of districts in India

A district (zila), also known as revenue district is an administrative division of an Indian state or territory.

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List of districts of Uttarakhand

A district of Uttarakhand state is an administrative geographical unit, headed by a District Magistrate (earlier called District Collector), an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service. Chamoli district and List of districts of Uttarakhand are districts of Uttarakhand.

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List of subdistricts in India

India has 28 states and eight union territories, which are divided into divisions comprising several districts.

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Literacy in India

Literacy in India is a key for social-economic progress.

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Lok Sabha

The Lok Sabha, also known as the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha.

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Mahabharata

The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.

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Maldives

The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean.

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Mandakini River

The Mandakini River is a tributary of the Alaknanda River in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

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Matha

A matha (मठ), also written as math, muth, mutth, mutt, or mut, is a Sanskrit word that means 'institute or college', and it also refers to a monastery in Hinduism.

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Mesozoic

The Mesozoic Era is the penultimate era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.

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Metamorphism is the transformation of existing rock (the protolith) to rock with a different mineral composition or texture.

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Ministry of Minority Affairs

The Ministry of Minority Affairs is the ministry in the Government of India which was carved out of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and created on 29 January 2006.

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Nanda Devi

Nanda Devi is the second-highest mountain in India, after Kangchenjunga, and the highest located entirely within the country.

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Nepali language

Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Himalayas region of South Asia.

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Pandu

Pandu (pale) was the king of Kuru Kingdom, with capital at Hastinapur in the epic Mahabharata.

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Parvati

Parvati (पार्वती), also known as Uma (उमा) and Gauri (गौरी), is the Hindu goddess of power, energy, nourishment, harmony, love, beauty, devotion, and motherhood.

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Pauri Garhwal district

Pauri Garhwal is a district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Chamoli district and Pauri Garhwal district are districts of Uttarakhand.

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Pilgrim

A pilgrim (from the Latin peregrinus) is a traveler (literally one who has come from afar) who is on a journey to a holy place.

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Pithoragarh district

Pithoragarh district is the easternmost district in the state of Uttarakhand. Chamoli district and Pithoragarh district are districts of Uttarakhand.

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Postal Index Number

A Postal Index Number (PIN; sometimes redundantly a PIN code) refers to a six-digit code in the Indian postal code system used by India Post.

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Puranas

Puranas (पुराण||ancient, old (1995 Edition), Article on Puranas,, page 915) are a vast genre of Hindu literature about a wide range of topics, particularly about legends and other traditional lore.

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Pushpawati River

Pushpawati River flows through the Valley of Flowers in Chamoli district in Garhwal region of the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

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Ramayana

The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata.

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Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India

Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, founded in 1961 by the Government of India Ministry of Home Affairs, for arranging, conducting and analysing the results of the demographic surveys of India including Census of India and Linguistic Survey of India.

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Reign

A reign is the period of a person's or dynasty's occupation of the office of monarch of a nation (e.g., Saudi Arabia, Belgium, Andorra), of a people (e.g., the Franks, the Zulus) or of a spiritual community (e.g., Catholicism, Tibetan Buddhism, Nizari Ismailism).

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Rigveda

The Rigveda or Rig Veda (ऋग्वेद,, from ऋच्, "praise" and वेद, "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (sūktas).

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Rishiganga

Rishiganga is a river in the Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India.

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Rudraprayag district

Rudraprayag is a district of the state of Uttarakhand of northern India. Chamoli district and Rudraprayag district are districts of Uttarakhand.

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Saharanpur

Saharanpur is a city and a municipal corporation in Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Salwar

Salwar or Shalwar is cloth worn from the waist to the ankles, covering both legs separately.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Sex ratio

A sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population.

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Shiva

Shiva (lit), also known as Mahadeva (Category:Trimurti Category:Wisdom gods Category:Time and fate gods Category:Indian yogis.

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State legislative assemblies of India

The State Legislative Assembly, or Vidhan Sabha, also called Vidhana Sabha, or Saasana Sabha, is a legislative body in each of the states and certain union territories of India.

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States and union territories of India

India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 entities.

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Tapas (Indian religions)

Tapas (Sanskrit: तपस्, romanized: tapas) is a variety of austere spiritual meditation practices in Indian religions.

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Tethys Ocean

The Tethys Ocean (Τηθύς), also called the Tethys Sea or the Neo-Tethys, was a prehistoric ocean during much of the Mesozoic Era and early-mid Cenozoic Era.

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Tharali Assembly constituency

Tharali is one of the 70 assembly constituencies of Uttarakhand, a northern state of India.

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Tibet

Tibet (Böd), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about.

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Tibet Autonomous Region

The Tibet Autonomous Region, officially the Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is an autonomous region of China and is part of Southwestern China.

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Totakacharya

Totakacharya (IAST) 8th century CE) was a disciple of Ādi Śaṅkara, the Advaita Vedanta teacher. He was made the first Jagadguru (head) of the Jyotir Pīthaṃ, the original northern maṭha founded by Ādi Śaṅkara in Uttarakhand. He founded a maṭha by name Vadakke modam in Thrissur, Kerala.

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Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand, formerly known as Uttaranchal (the official name until 2007), is a state in northern India.

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Uttarkashi

Uttarkashi, meaning Kashi of the north, is a town located in Uttarkashi district in Uttarakhand, India.

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Uttarkashi district

Uttarkashi District is a district of Garhwal division of the Uttarakhand state in northern India, and has its headquarters at Uttarkashi city. Chamoli district and Uttarkashi district are districts of Uttarakhand.

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Valley of Flowers National Park

Valley of Flowers National Park is an Indian national park which was established in 1982.

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Vedas

The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India.

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Vijay Prasad Dimri

Vijay Prasad Dimri is an Indian geophysical scientist, known for his contributions in opening up a new research area in Earth sciences by establishing a parallelism between deconvolution and inversion, the two vital geophysical signal processing tools deployed in minerals and oil and gas exploration.

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Women in India

The status of women in India has been subject to many changes over the time of recorded India's history.

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1999 Chamoli earthquake

The 1999 Chamoli earthquake occurred on 29 March in the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (now in Uttarakhand).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamoli_district

Also known as Chamoli, Chamoli, Uttarkhand, Chamolui, History of Chamoli district, Narayanbagar.

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Districts of Uttarakhand

Populated places established in 1960

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