Jari
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| Jari | |
|---|---|
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Western Himalayas |
| Growing Area | Parvati Valley |
| Geography | |
| Country | India |
| Province/State | Himachal Pradesh |
| District | Kullu District |
| Tehsil | Kullu Tehsil |
| Coordinates | 31.9964, 77.2454 |
| Settlement | |
| Type | Village |
| Population | 2,725 (2011) |
| Access | State highway, bus service and all-weather road (2011 census) |
| Landscape | |
| Terrain | Floor of the Parvati valley at the mouth of the Malana torrent |
| Documentation | |
| Accessions | 0 |
Jari is a village in the Parvati Valley in Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh, India, at the point where the Malana torrent joins the Parvati river.[1] The 2011 census recorded 2,725 inhabitants.[2]: 76 Jari is the seat of one of the two sub-tehsils of the district.[3] A road of 15 km leads from Jari up the side valley to Malana, whose mail and veterinary care were handled at Jari in 2016–17.[4]: §2.9, §5.1.7, §6.14
Geography
The 1917 gazetteer of Kangra district states that "the Malana joins the north bank of the Parbati at Jari", where the Malana Valley opens from the north.[1] Malana village stands on the right bank of the torrent 15 km from Jari, which lies to its south.[4]: §2.1
Jari was a stage on the road up the Parvati in colonial times. In the gazetteer of 1897 it lay about 8 miles above the previous stage and had a small rest-house.[5] By 1917 it had a forest rest-house on the road to Manikaran, and the stage stood at 5,000 ft (about 1,520 m).[1]
Demography and administration
The 2011 census enumerated the village as "Jari (39/100)", with 2,725 inhabitants (1,402 males and 1,323 females) in 584 households on 373 ha. Jari lay in Kullu tehsil and in the Kullu community development block.[2]: 76[6] The village lay on a state highway, with an all-weather road and public and private bus services, 28 km from the nearest town, Bhuntar, and 35 km from Kullu. The village had a community health centre, a post office, a commercial bank and a co-operative bank. Of its 373 ha, 309 ha were sown, 16 ha of them irrigated. Its main crops were maize, wheat and paddy; it made kudal hoes, and its handicraft was caps.[6]
Jari is one of the district's two sub-tehsils, the other being Nitthar.[3] It is one of the 70 gram panchayats of the Kullu development block.[7]
Road-head for Malana
Before a road was built, the usual way to Malana was a footpath from Jari along the torrent, crossing the Malana Nala and the Parvati by three cantilever bridges; a first-time visitor needed six to seven hours. The road was built in 2007 and runs 15 km from Jari, 8 km of it paved.[4]: §2.9 Malana draws several services from Jari. The Malana co-operative society, founded in 1978, had its headquarters at Jari until it began working from Malana in 1982. In 2016–17 the holder of Malana's ration depot lived at Jari, Malana's mail passed through the Jari post office and Malana's flocks were vaccinated at a veterinary hospital at Jari.[4]: §5.1.4, §5.1.7, §6.14
The anthropologist Colin Rosser, who arrived in Kullu in 1951, spent the worst of that winter at Jari after the more conservative faction in Malana refused to let him live in the village; he was allowed to pitch a tent there in the spring of 1952.[8]: 41, 46–47 Richard Axelby, following Rosser's route in September 2013, found that it was "no longer necessary to make a day's walk from Jari" to reach Malana, because a road built for the hydro-power projects on the Malana River came within an easy stroll of the village.[8]: 53
Accessions
No accessions are currently linked to Jari.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Punjab District Gazetteers, Vol. XXX-A: Kangra District, Parts II–IV (Kulu, Lahul and Spiti). Lahore: Government of Punjab. 1918 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Directorate of Census Operations, Himachal Pradesh (2014). District Census Handbook, Kullu: Village and Town Wise Primary Census Abstract (Report). Census of India 2011, Himachal Pradesh, Series 03, Part XII-B. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Administrative Setup". District Kullu. Government of Himachal Pradesh. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Kalia, Arvind; Singh, D. V.; Kumar, Anil; Singh, Sujan (December 2018). Socio-Economic Resurvey of Village Malana in Himachal Pradesh, India (PDF) (Report). AERC Report, Study No. 164. Shimla: Agro-Economic Research Centre, Himachal Pradesh University.
- ↑ Diack, A.H. (1899). Gazetteer of the Kangra District, Parts II to IV: Kulu, Lahul and Spiti, 1897. Lahore: Punjab Government – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Directorate of Census Operations, Himachal Pradesh. Himachal Pradesh - Village Amenities (Spreadsheet (DH_2011_DCHB_Village_Release_0200.xlsx)). Census of India 2011, District Census Handbook, Kullu. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ "Gram Panchayats". District Kullu. Government of Himachal Pradesh. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Axelby, Richard (2015). "Hermit village or Zomian republic? An update on the political socio-economy of a remote Himalayan community" (PDF). European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (46): 35–61 – via Digital Himalaya.