Puranpur
Puranpur
Town in Uttar Pradesh, India
Puranpur is a town and a municipal board in Pilibhit district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Puranpur is divided into 25 wards for which elections are held every 5 years. After independence and Partition of India the large numbers of Sikhs migrated and settled in the Puranpur Region. Due to dense Sikh population and their lifestyle, The area is also known as Mini Punjab as after Partition of India in 1947.Sikh people own their properties and lands in this area. There are numerous Sikh temples in Puranpur. [citation needed]
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