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Amritsar
Amritsar is in Punjab state in North India and is the spiritual capital of the Sikh religion. City was founded by Ram Das, the fourth guru, on land given by Akbar in 1577. The city houses the holiest place for the Sikhs, The Golden Temple. They try at least to visit the temple and bathe in the large pool (sarovar) that surrounds the temple when possible. Amritsar is the Administrative Centre and a trade cum industrial city where carpets, fabrics of goat hair, and handicrafts are made. It lies on the main GT road from Chandigarh to Jalandhar to Amritsar to Lahore, Pakistan. Lahore, which was the historic capital of the pre-partition Punjab is about 50 Km west of Amritsar. The Punjab region has seen many revolts and most of them had Amritsar as their pivotal point. The first Amritsar massacre took place in the Jalianwala Bagh, an enclosed park, in Apr., 1919; hundreds of Indian nationalists were killed and thousands wounded when troops under British control fired upon them. The second massacre occurred June, 1984, when Indian troops, opposing a militant Sikh separatist movement, shot their way into the Golden Temple, killing more than 400 people inside. Delhi - Mumbai - Chennai - Kolkata - Hyderabad - Ahmedabad - Lucknow Agra - Jaipur - Amritsar - Varanasi
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