Chak Dina
Administration
Chak Dina previously fell in the Gunja Union Council, is now part of Kotla Qasim Khan Union Council. Other villages in this Union Council are Saida Baraham, Sukhchaina, Chakori Khurd, Thurgala and Jalaldin.
Etymology
The name Chak Dina is combination of words Chak meaning village and Dina meaning of Allahdin. The first inhabitant of the village Chaudhry Allahdin was nicknamed Dina hence Chak Dina became the name of the village. There are other villages in the close vicinity which have names of the same pattern like Chak Ikhlas and Chak Rajjadi.
History
The village was founded in the second half of the 18th century CE by Chaudhry Allahdin, a Muslim descendant of Hindu Shahi ruler Jayapala at the site of Shahpur, a city ruined by revolution of the time.
Demographics
In 1966, after the Mangla Dam was built on the Jhelum River, some effected people from Mirpur (Azad Jammu and Kashmir) whose property had come under waters of the dam migrated to the village and inhabited a new locality namely Chak Fazal Shah within the revenue limits of Chak Dina. Besides purchasing land for inhabiting their locality, they also purchased some agricultural land from the people of Chak Dina. In return for such land, the local land holders were helped to immigrate their sons to England for job.
| Historical population | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Census | Pop. | Time span (yrs) | %± | Annual RoG %± |
| 1951 | 720 | — | — | — |
| 1961 | 758 | 10 | 5.28% | .52% |
| 1972 | 1,017 | 11 | 34.17% | 2.71% |
| 1981 | 1,139 | 9 | 12% | 1.27% |
| 1998 | 1,362 | 17 | 19.58% | 1.06% |
| 2017 | 1,637 | 19 | 20.19% | .97% |
| 2023 (est) | 1,735 | 6 | 5.99% | .97% |
| Sources | ||||
Land and revenue
The village falls under the revenue limits of Kanungoi Circle Lalamusa and Patwar Circle Jataria Kalan. A Kanungoi Circle is headed by a Kanungo (also Qanungo) and a Patwar Circle is headed by a Patwari.
The village has 1,152 acres in land mass.
Schools
The village has elementary (I-VIII) school for boys and primary (I-V) school for girls.
Landmarks
One of the famous bazaars in the town of Lalamusa is named after Chak Dina and is called Bazaar Dinay Chakian. Dinay Chakian means, in Punjabi, the people from Dina Chak. This bazaar was inhabited by Bagh Sha, a Hindu who migrated from Chak Dina to Lalamusa in 1929. The first building in the bazaar was Haveli Bagh Sha. This was also the first building of the city of Lalamusa built according to a floor plan prepared by an achitect. Some parts of this building are still present in original form.
Possible recognition
Two British ships, sharing the nomenclature of the village, were built in 1914 and 1951, respectively. The reason behind the naming, whether by happenstance or intentional tribute to the village, remains unclear.
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Gujrat (URDU), is a district of Punjab Province in Pakistan. Gujrat is an ancient district located in between two famous rivers, the Jhelum and Chenab. It is bounded on the northeast by Mirpur, on the northwest by the River Jhelum which separates it from Jhelum District, on the east and southeast by the Chenab River, separating it from the districts of Gujranwala and Sialkot, and on the West by Mandi Bahauddin. District Gujrat is spread over an area of 3,192 square kilometres, and it includes historic villages and towns such as Jalalpur Jattan, Chakdina, Karnana, Kunjah and Lalamusa."
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