Jaunsar Bawar

Jaunsar-Bawar is a hilly place, 85 km from Mussoorie, in Chakrata tehsil, in Dehradun district, it represents the geographical place inhabited through the Jaunsaris and bawaris, which lines its origin from the Pandavas of Mahabharata & Rajputs of Rajasthan. Ethnically, Jaunsar-Bawar accommodates areas, inhabited by way of the 2 essential agencies: Jaunsar, the decrease half, at the same time as the snow-clad top vicinity is known as Bawar, which includes, the 'Kharamba height'.

The Bawar lies inside the upper regions of the place. They are a unique community due to the fact they've remained reduce off from the external international for hundreds of years, main to the retention of their unique way of life and traditions, which have attracted historians, anthropologist and research in ethnopharmacology to this vicinity for over a century. There is a big cultural shift from other human beings of Garhwal, living nearby. Jaunsar- Bawar changed into Part of Garhwal Kingdom.

It is the border vicinity of Garhwal so it became captured someday with the aid of Sirmaur rules. But Garhwal Kings defeated Sirmaur and once more Jaunsar-Bawar have become a part of Garhwal. They can nonetheless revel in Sirmaur language phrases in Jaunsari and Garhwali surname in Jaunsar. In 1829, Jaunsar-Bawar became integrated in Chakrata tehsil, previous to which it had been part of Punjab nation of Sirmur, until the British conquered it at the side of Dehradun after the 1814 struggle with the Gurkhas.