Hoshiarpur Travel Forum

hoshiarpur is a birth place of my father and mother before partition of india. they often narrate the sweet stories of their native villages. I want to know the existence of their village. the names of villages are mirpur and brute tehsil makerian. kindly tell me little bit about these. thanks.

It is also where my father comes from. I do not know the names of the villages you ask, but I will ask my father or aunt about them. The villages I know are Bhilowal, Bassi Kalaan, and one other.
The last time I visited was in 2006: there is some distant family there, but it was really to show my kids.
The primary school my father attended was still there, although closed as it was about to be demolished and rebuilt, and also the middle school he attended for a while, they moved away when he was 9 or so. The middle school has the same structure, all classrooms opening round a large courtyard with trees, although of course, the building itself is renovated.
I have some photos of the places.
Hoshiarpur district is very green and famous for "chos", dips in roads that become ponds on a rainy day..although not on newer roads. This is because one is close to the Beas river tributaries where they come out of the Himalyan foothills. The lower Himalayas (Shivalik range) is visible from there, and the land is not so flat. Very good mangoes.