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Ganganagar

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Ganganagar (gŭng`gänəgər), city (1991 pop. 161,482), Rajasthan state, NW India, on the Bikaner canal system, a major new irrigation project in the desert region bordering Pakistan. It is a district administrative center and a market for grain, oilseed, vegetables, sheep, and cattle. Since the 1970s the city has expanded as an agricultural distribution center. Leather goods are made and sugar is refined in Ganganagar.


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On 7 June 1984, six hundred soldiers of the Sikh Regiment's 9th Battalion broke into the regimental armoury and drove through the Punjabi cantonment town of Ganganagar shouting "long live Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale" and firing indiscriminately.
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