Pul Kanjari

A small Village on the Amritsar- Lahore Road, this is situated on the Wagah Border and is a few kilometers away from Amritsar. This village was a favorite place for Maharaja Ranjit Singh and he used to always halt here for at least a few days while travelling along Amritsar to Lahore or back. The name means a Bridge (Pul) which was built for a Kanjari (dancer). This dancer was extremely talented and that her shoes once fell into the river and thus she insisted on this bridge being built. There is a fortress here whih consists of a temple, a mosque, a pool as well as a gurudwara. This is the evidence of the secularism followed by Maharaja Ranjit Singh. There is also a memorial in the village in the memory of the jawans who had to sacrifice their lives in the War of 1971 with Pakistan.