Gochhi

Gochhi
Gochhi
Village
	Gochhi Location in Haryana, India Gochhi Gochhi (India)
	Coordinates: Coordinates: 28°44′N 76°35′E / 28.73°N 76.59°E
Country	India
State	Haryana
Region	North India
District	Jhajjar
Founded by	Dada Tate(ताते)
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	124107
ISO 3166 code	IN-HR
Vehicle registration	HR-77,14
Website	haryana.gov.in

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Gochhi is a large village in the Jhajjar district and erstwhile Rohtak district of Haryana, India.

It is predominantly a Jat village, with Ahlawat, Jakhar and Hooda being the most common surnames. Other than Jats, people of all castes are living in this village. Gocchi is home to the Military Zamindar family. Many people (for 5 generations) from the family served in the British and later Indian Army. The village is still known for its large number of officers in the Indian army. There is a plaque in the village, erected by the British, which speaks of the great contribution made by the people of Gochhi in the World War I.

Dada Tate Singh Alhwat founded the village. Dada Tate(ताते) Singh Alhawat was brother of Balbir Singh Alhawat alias Baru founder of village Varhana, Sheru Singh Alhawat founder of village Sheriya, Digha Ram Alhawat founder of village Dighal. There is a well in this village of Mahabharata times. Dada Tate had three sons. The eldest of them was Madu(माडू) second trilokan and the youngest was Popan or Poban. There are two panas of their names as mada pana and popan pana in Gochhi..

Language[edit]

Haryanavi is the widely used dialect/language by the native people. Haryanavi originated from the devanagri script and mostly used by north Indians and Jat people. It is also called as Khadi boli and considered bold. This language has been used in popular Bollywood movies like Sultan, Tanu weds Manu, Tanu weds Manu return. Apart from that, people in this village can speak and understand other languages like Hindi and English.

Religion[edit]

Most people in this village are Hindus. However other religions are also welcome by people. There are some good temples in the village area. Famous ones are Shivaji and Shyamji temple. People are very religious and they like celebrating festivals together by making special food and inviting each other.There are also some Muslims in Gochhi village.

Culture[edit]

People of this region wear different types of clothes. It includes traditional clothes like suit, salwar,sari and dupatta for women, Shirt and pant or T-Shirt and lower for men. Old age people age about 90 years prefer wearing dhoti and kurta and Khandwa is being worn on the head by men as a symbol of pride and honor.Age about 65 years old mens prefer clathes kurta and pajama.Farmers and Government jobs are main occupation here some who did not have Government job and not have 5-6 fields they do private jobs and also farming all peoples in this village are rich and belong to high class family but some people are belong to middle class family

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