23-502: Nagrota is a town located in the Jammu district of Jammu and Kashmir in India . It is located on National highway 44 between Jammu city and Udhampur . It is situated on the bank of River Tawi. Nagrota along with Kashmiri Pandit Migrant town of Jagti straddle the national highway. Nagrota is the first shrine stoppage for Shri Mata Vaishno Devi. The Kol-Kandoli temple is a mandate for completing
46-470: A literacy rate of 83.98%. The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes account for 24.7% and 4.5% of the population of the district. Languages of Jammu district (2011) The most widely spoken language of Jammu is Dogri . Other languages spoken are Punjabi , Urdu , Hindi , Kashmiri , Gojri and English . Dogri language Dogri ( Devanagari : डोगरी ; Name Dogra Akkhar : 𑠖𑠵𑠌𑠤𑠮 ; Nastaliq : ڈوگری ; IPA: [ɖoːɡ.ɾiː] )
69-493: A population of 1,526,406, roughly equal to the nation of Gabon or the US state of Hawaii . This gives it a ranking of 326th in India (out of a total of 640 ). The district has a population density of 596 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,540/sq mi) . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 12.48%. Jammu has a sex ratio of 871 females for every 1000 males, and
92-655: A distorted form of the word Dwigarta , which means 'two troughs', a possible reference to the Mansar and Surinsar lakes. The linguist George Grierson connected the term Duggar with the Rajasthani word Doonger which means 'hill', and Dogra with Donger . This opinion has lacked support because of the inconsistency of the ostensible changes from Rajasthani to Dogri (essentially the question of how Doonger became Duggar while Donger became Dogra ), and has been contradicted by some scholars. Yet another proposal stems from
115-573: A population of 19,998 while the twin town of Jagti, made for Kashmiri migrants, had a population of around 14,000-18000. Jagti township has total of 176 buildings with 24 flats in each building. Jagti township has a total of 4224 flats. Hindu 89.30%, Sikh 4.39%, Muslim 5.31%. There is a large Nagrota Cantonment located in Nagrota, which is the home of 16 Corps , the largest Corps in the Indian Army and also world's largest corp. A Military Police check post
138-424: Is tonal , a trait it shares with other Western Pahari languages and Punjabi. It has several varieties, all with greater than 80% lexical similarity. Dogri is spoken by 2.6 million people in India (as of the 2011 census). It has been among the country's 22 scheduled languages since 2003. It is also one of the five official languages of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Dogri was originally written in
161-571: Is a Dogri literary periodical issued by the Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages, which is a notable publisher of modern Dogri literary work, another being the Dogri Sanstha. Popular recent songs include Pala Shapaiya Dogariya , Manne di Mauj and Shhori Deya . The noted Pakistani singer Malika Pukhraj had roots in Duggar, and her renditions of several Dogri songs continue to be popular in
184-410: Is also home to prestigious Sainik School and an I.I.T College, Sainik School Nagrota and Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu . It has a magnificent army park named as Vijay Park. Nagrota has a National Rural Health Mission and a KNH Hospital which is under stay. Nowadays, the progress of Nagrota is in its top level. It has a witnessed a Khel Gaun and a volleyball stadium. The Jamboo Zoo in Nagrota which
207-667: Is an Indo-Aryan language of the Western Pahari group, primarily spoken in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir , India, with smaller groups of speakers in the adjoining regions of western Himachal Pradesh , northern Punjab , and north-eastern Pakistani Punjab . It is the ethnic language of the Dogras , and was spoken in the historical region of Duggar . It is currently spoken in the districts of Kathua , Jammu , Samba , Udhampur , Reasi and other adjoining districts of Jammu Province Unusually for an Indo-European language , Dogri
230-533: Is around 720 millimetres (28 in). Spring is the wettest season while autumn is the driest. The highest temperature reliably recorded is 38.3 °C (100.9 °F) and the lowest is −20.0 °C (−4.0 °F).[30] Nagrota is about 14 km ahead of Jammu city on NH44 .The town is located on uneven low valleys in the Trikuta hills on one side and river Tawi on the other side. Nagrota has an average elevation of 412 m above sea level. As of 2011, Nagrota had
253-409: Is located at the entry point. Jammu district Jammu district is an administrative district of the Jammu division of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. It is the most populous district in the Jammu division . Jammu District has 7 Sub-Divisions: There are 21 tehsils: There are 20 Blocks : According to the 2011 census Jammu district has
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#1732859533031276-502: Is published in it. These are rules of writing tones in Dogri using Devanagari Script . They are as follows:- Some examples are shown below. In the year 1317, Amir Khusro , the famous Urdu and Persian poet, referred to Duger (Dogri) while describing the languages and dialects of India as follows: "Sindhi-o-Lahori-o-Kashmiri-o-Duger." Intellectuals in the court of Maharaja Ranbir Singh of Jammu and Kashmir described Duggar as
299-522: Is under construction with more than 2000 varieties of snakes. Nagrota has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), much cooler than what is found in much of the rest of India, due to its moderately high elevation and northerly position. The valley is surrounded by the Himalayas on all sides. Winters are cool, with daytime temperature averaging 12°-15 °C. Summers are warm with a July daytime average of 24.1 °C (75.4 °F). The average annual rainfall
322-583: The Lilavati translated into Dogri by Jyotshi Bisheshwar, then principal of Jammu Pathshala. Dogri has an established tradition of poetry, fiction and dramatic works. Recent poets range from the 18th-century Dogri poet Kavi Dattu (1725–1780) in Raja Ranjit Dev's court to Professor Ram Nath Shastri and Mrs. Padma Sachdev . Kavi Dattu is highly regarded for his Barah Massa (Twelve Months), Kamal Netra (Lotus Eyes), Bhup Bijog and Bir Bilas . Shiraza Dogri
345-520: The Shri Mata Vaishno Devi pilgrimage. Nagrota has an extension of Jammu Industries having Oil Depots and Godowns.It serves as headquarter of the XVI Corps (India) also known as the 'White Knight Corp'. Though Nagrota does not have a railway station, it does have a Railway Station Code assigned ( NGRT ) in preparation for the completion of the planned Jammu-Srinagar railway extension. Nagrota
368-593: The Doordarshan Koshur channel, available on cable and satellite television throughout India). Official recognition of the language has been gradual, but progressive. On 2 August 1969, the General Council of the Sahitya Academy , Delhi recognized Dogri as an "independent modern literary language" of India, based on the unanimous recommendation of a panel of linguists. Dogri is one of the official languages of
391-710: The Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir . On 22 December 2003, in a major milestone for the official status of the language, Dogri was recognized as a national language of India in the Indian constitution . In 2005, a collection of over 100 works of prose and poetry in Dogri published over the last 50 years was made accessible online at the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore. This included works of eminent writer Dhinu Bhai Panth, Professor Madan Mohan Sharma, B.P. Sathai and Ram Nath Shastri. The following text
414-635: The Language Session of the All India Oriental Conference held in Dharwad, Karnataka , could not reach consensus on the Dwigarta and Durgara hypotheses, but did manage agreement on a Doonger - Duggar connection. In a subsequent All India Oriental Conference held at Jaipur in 1982, the linguists agreed that the culture, language and history of Rajasthan and Duggar share some similarities. It
437-449: The old Dogra Akkhar script – a modified version of Takri . A modified version of this script was created by the order of Maharaja Ranbir Singh of Jammu and Kashmir, which was then called Name Dogra Akkhar . Official documents were written in this new script; however it never caught on among the general Dogri-speaking populace. Currently, Devanagari is the officially recognised script for Dogri in India and virtually all Dogri literature
460-424: The region. Some devotional songs ( bhajans ) composed by Karan Singh have gained increasing popularity over time, including Kaun Kareyaan Teri Aarti . Dogri programming features regularly on Radio Kashmir (a division of All India Radio ), and Doordarshan (Indian state television) broadcasts in Jammu and Kashmir . However, Dogri does not have a dedicated state television channel yet, unlike Kashmiri (which has
483-562: The word Duggar is a form of the word Duggarh sounds appropriate." In modern times, a notable Dogri translation (in the New Dogra script) of the Sanskrit classic mathematical opus Lilavati , by the noted mathematician Bhaskaracharya (b. 1114 AD), was published by the Vidya Vilas Press, Jammu in 1873. As Sanskrit literacy remained confined to a few, the late Maharaja Ranbir Singh had
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#1732859533031506-512: The word Durgara , the name of a kingdom mentioned in an eleventh century copper-plate inscription in the Bhuri Singh Museum in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh. The word Durgara means 'invincible' in several Northern Indo-Aryan languages, and could be an allusion to the ruggedness of the terrain of Duggar and the historically militarised and autonomous Dogra societies. In 1976, the experts attending
529-413: Was also suggested that the words Duggar and Dogra are common in some parts of Rajasthan. Specifically, it was asserted that areas with many forts are called Duggar, and their inhabitants are accordingly known as Dogras. The land of Duggar also has many forts, which may support the above opinion. An article by Dharam Chand Prashant in the literary magazine Shiraza Dogri suggested that "the opinion that
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