Attari

Attari, also spelled Atari, is a village of Amritsar district in the Punjab state of India, 3 km from the Indo-Pakistani border at Wagah. It is situated 25 km west of the Sikh holy city of Amritsar, and is the last Indian station on the rail route connecting Lahore, Pakistan with the Indian capital Delhi. Attari village was the native village of Sardar Sham Singh Attariwala, one of the generals in the Army of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

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Settlement.name: Attari
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.image_skyline: Attari Railway Station.JPG
Settlement.imagesize: 300px
Settlement.image_caption: Attari railway station, looking towards Pakistan, with goods custom depot (left)
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Punjab
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Amritsar
Settlement.pushpin_map: India Punjab#India
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 300
Settlement.image_map: Wagah-Attari (OpenStreetMap).png
Settlement.mapsize: 300px
Settlement.map_caption: OSM map showing Attari and Wagah, their railway stations, and the Wagah border crossing. In the upper corner is shown the position of the villages between the cities of Lahore and Amritsar (click to expand)
Settlement.timezone1: IST
Settlement.utc_offset1: +5:30

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== History == Attari village, in the Majha Region, was founded by two Sidhu Jat brothers, by the name of Gaur Singh and Kaur Singh around 1740. They were the sons of Chaudhri Kahn Chand Sidhu of village Kaonke in Ludhiana (Malwa). The two brothers immigrated to the Majha Region beyond the Sutlej River. Firstly the found another village, by the name of Kaunke (Amtitsar). Later a famous local ascetic named Mool Dass pointed the brothers towards a large mound ("theh" in Punjabi), and asked them to establish a new village. Gaura got built a attari (three-storey house), on the mound and later on a village developed around the attari.