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{{Short description|Village in Punjab, India}}
{{Orphan|date=October 2025}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Rurki Khas
| native_name =
| other_name =
| native_name_lang = Punjabi
| settlement_type = Village
| pushpin_map = India Punjab#India
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Punjab, India
| coordinates = {{coord|31.1614|N|76.1537|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Punjab, India|Punjab]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Hoshiarpur district|Hoshiarpur]]
| government_type = [[Panchayati raj (India)|Panchayat raj]]
| governing_body = [[Gram panchayat]]
| unit_pref = Metric
| elevation_m = 253.7
| population_footnotes =
| population_total = 1866<ref name="census">{{cite web |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/census.website/data/population-finder |title=RURKI KHAS (155) |publisher=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |access-date = 3 Jan 2025}}</ref>
| population_as_of = 2011
| population_density_km2 = auto
| population_note = [[Human sex ratio|Sex ratio]] 950/916 [[male|♂]]/[[female|♀]]
| population_demonym =
| demographics_type1 = Languages
| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info1 = [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]
| demographics1_title2 =
| demographics1_info2 =
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code = 144532
| iso_code = IN-PB
}}

'''Rurki Khas''', popularly known as Rurki Sainian,<ref>{{cite book |last= Nijjar|first= Bakhshish|title= History of the Babbar Akalis |date= 1987|location= |publisher= ABS Publications |page= 246 |url= https://archive.org/details/historyofbabarak0000nijj|isbn= 8170720109|access-date=13 Jan 2025}}</ref> is a village in [[Hoshiarpur district]] of [[Punjab State]], India. It is located 47.10 kilometers (29.26 miles) away from the district headquarter [[Hoshiarpur]], 5.90 kilometers (3.66 miles) from tehsil [[Garhshankar]] and 75.85 kilometers (47.13 miles) from the state capital [[Chandigarh]]. The village is situated west of the Jalandhar Branch of the [[Bist Doab Canal]].<ref>{{cite map |author= Survey Of India|year= 2009|map= H43E4 |map-url= https://forestsclearance.nic.in/DownloadPdfFile.aspx?FileName=111181251212RHGF3toposheet.pdf&FilePath=../writereaddata/FormA/DetailsOfMaps/|edition= 1|scale= 1:50,000|series= Open Series Map|language= English|publisher= Surveyor General of India|title=H43E4 53A/4|access-date= 16 January 2025}}</ref> The village was electrified in 1963.<ref>{{cite Hansard |house= Punjab Vidhan Sabha |title= Villages to be Electrified in the Current Year|url=https://archive.org/details/debates_202402/page/139/mode/1up |date= 19 March 1963 |speaker= Chaudhri Rabir Singh| position= Irrigation and Power Minister}}</ref> The village is administrated by a [[Sarpanch]] an elected representative of the village.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cdn.s3waas.gov.in/s3c5ab0bc60ac7929182aadd08703f1ec6/uploads/2024/09/2024092739.pdf |title=List of Reservation sarpanches for Gram panchayat District Hoshiarpur |publisher=Government of Punjab Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Hoshiarpur Notification |access-date= 3 Jan 2025}}</ref>

== Demography ==
As of the [[2011 census of India]], Rurki Khas has 395 households and population of 1866, of which 950 are male and 916 are female. The [[literacy rate]] is 75.03%.<ref name="census"/>

The [[Schedule Caste]] population makes up 465 or 24.92% of the total population in Rurki Khas. The town does not have any [[Schedule Tribe]] population.<ref name="census"/>

{{Historical populations
|shading = off
|percentages = off
|1951 |1388<ref>{{Cite book |author= Lakshmi Chandra Vashishta |title = District Census Handbook, Hoshiarpur District, Vol-8 , Punjab - Census 1951 |publisher= Punjab Government |year = 1952 |page = 382}}</ref>
|1961 |1454<ref>{{Cite book |author= R. L. Anand |title = District Census Handbook No. 9, Hoshiarpur District |publisher= Government of Punjab|year = 1968 |page = 423}}</ref>
|1971 |1471<ref>{{Cite book |author= P. L. Sondhi |title = District Census Handbook, Hoshiarpur , Part X-A & B, Series-17, Punjab - Census 1971 |publisher= Government of Punjab|year = 1971 |page = 222}}</ref>
|1981 |1687<ref>{{Cite book |author= D. N. Dhir |title = District Census Handbook, Hoshiarpur, Part XIII-A & B, Series-17, Punjab - Census 1981 |publisher= Government of Punjab|year = 1982 |page = 160}}</ref>
|1991 | N/A
|2001 |1989<ref>{{Cite book |author= R. S. Meena |title = Census of India 2001 - Punjab - Series 4 - District Census Handbook, Part A & B - Hoshiarpur |publisher= Directorate of Census Operations, Punjab |year = 2007 |page = 682}}</ref>
|2011 |1866 <ref name="census"/>
}}

== Education ==
The village has a Punjabi medium, co-educational Government Senior Secondary School. The school consists of grades from 6 to 12 and is located in the Garhshankar block of Hoshiarpur district. The school was established in 1965 and is managed by the Department of Education.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://schools.org.in/hoshiarpur/03050307602/gsss-rurki-khass.html |title=GSSS RURKI KHASS |publisher=Schools.org.in |access-date = 3 Jan 2025}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=February 2025}}

The village also has another Government Senior Secondary School called Shahid Master Malkit Singh Govt. Senior Secondary School<ref>{{cite web |url=https://registration2022.pseb.ac.in/School/Schoollist# |title=School Details |publisher=Punjab School Education Board |access-date = 3 Jan 2025}}</ref>

== Landmarks ==
Gurdwara Moti Bagh, Gurdwara Darwaja Sahib, Ravidaas Gurdwara are religious sites in the village.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}

Shaheed Numbardaar Bhagat Singh Memorial Statue.<ref>{{cite web |author= |date= 2024 |title= Shaheed Numbardaar Bhagat Singh Memorial Statue|url= https://yappe.in/punjab/rurki-khas/shaheed-numbardaar-bhagat-singh-memorial-statue/715336|publisher= yappe.in|access-date= 13 Jan 2025}}</ref>{{Clarify|date=February 2025}}

== History ==
Rattan Singh Rakkar, [[jathedar]] of the Garhshankar Branch of the [[Babbar Akali movement]], took refuge in the village of Rurki Khas in 1932. Meehan Singh of Garhi, a police informant, spotted him and Rattan Singh Rakkar was killed in an encounter with the police on 15 July 1932.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://amritmahotsav.nic.in/unsung-heroes-detail.htm?10379 |title=Rattan Singh Rakkar |publisher=Government of India, Ministry of Culture |access-date = 3 Jan 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |editor1-first = Basudev |editor1-last = Chatterji |editor2-first=Ishrat| editor2-last = Alam|title = Dictionary of Martyrs India's Freedom Struggle (1857-1947)|volume=1 |publisher= Indian Council of Historical Research |url =https://www.indiaculture.gov.in/sites/default/files/pdf/Martyrs_Vol_1_Part_II_06_03_2019.pdf |page=272}}</ref>

For giving protection to Rattan Singh Rakkar, the British Government imposed the following punishments:
#A Police post was established in the village, the expenditures of which were to be borne by the villagers.
#They were fined Rs. 6000/- to make the payment to the Police establishment posted there from 1932 to 1934.
#Pensions of all the pensioners of this village were not paid for 5 years, which amounted to Rs. 7000/-
#The villagers were deprived of the right of getting Government services.
#Those who had actively supported this political struggle could not move out of the village, without the prior sanction of the Government.
#The whole village was entered in the black list of the British Government.<ref>{{Cite book |first = Gurcharan |last = Singh Vaid |title = Shaheed Rattan Singh Ji Babar Akali da Singhupan|publisher= Tatav Gyan Khoi Kender |pages=80–104}}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[List of villages in India]]

== References ==

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[[Category:Cities and towns in Hoshiarpur district]]

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