Nalwa

Nalwa & Haryana in India

Nalwa (नलवा) in Haryana
Village
Nalwa (नलवा) in Haryana Location in Haryana, India
Coordinates:
Country	India
State	Haryana
District	Bhiwani
Elevation	215 m (705 ft)
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)

Nalwa (Hindi: नलवा) is a village, as well as an Assembly Constituency in Haryana Legislative Assembly, located in Hisar district in the state of Haryana in India.

Nalwa is a small village on Tosham-Hisar road, 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from Tosham. Nalwa village is the native village of O. P. Jindal, an industrialist. His son Naveen Jindal is Member of Parliament from Kurukshetra, Haryana.

History

Nalwa, which means Tiger, was named after Sardar Balwant Singh Nalwa, who was the Deputy Commissioner of Hisar district during the British Raj, when Haryana was an integral part of undivided Punjab. Balwant Singh Nalwa was the fifth generation descendant of the famed Uppal Khatri Sikh General Sardar Hari Singh Nalwa.

Nalwa Vidhan Sabha Constituency

Nalwa became a new Vidhan Sabha constituency of Legislative Assembly of Haryana (Hindi: हरियाणा विधान सभा) in the state of Haryana in the 2008 delimitation exercise. Earlier, most of the villages of this constituency were under Adampur, a stronghold of Bhajan Lal. Some of the villages were earlier with the Bawani Khera Constituency.

Geography

Mayapuri, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) on the Nalwa-Tosham road forms a small part of Nalwa.(Balwan Yadav) Nalwa is a spiritual place with many temples.