Shree Mahavir Courier Branches in Jalandhar

About Jalandhar — A Brief History

Jalandhar sits in the Doaba region of central Punjab, in the fertile plain between the Beas and the Sutlej rivers. The town's older name is Jalandhar the city of the demon Jalandhar mentioned in the Padma Purana and it shows up in old Buddhist Pali texts as Jullundur, a stop on the trade route between Mathura and Taxila. The town was an important centre under the Hindu Shahis, the Tomars, the Mughals and finally the Sikh Misls before the British took it in 1846. Old areas like the Devi Talab, the Jama Masjid Imam Nasir and the Tulsi Mandir mark this older history.

Jalandhar is most famously known across the world as the sports-goods capital of India. The Jalandhar sports cluster, going back to the 1880s, makes cricket bats, footballs, hockey sticks, gym equipment and boxing gloves that go to over a hundred countries most of the cricket and hockey gear used in international tournaments is made in or near Jalandhar. The town is also one of India's biggest hand-tool clusters, with hundreds of workshops making spanners, wrenches and forge-steel parts.

Beyond sports goods, Jalandhar is the heart of the Doaba region's Punjabi diaspora almost every village in the district has families settled in Canada, the UK, the US or Italy and the town has a thriving travel-agency, NRI-banking and overseas-shipping economy. The Jalandhar Cantonment and the Lovely Professional University at Phagwara round out the city. Shree Mahavir Courier's Jalandhar branches handle a heavy daily flow of sports-goods export dispatch, NRI-document and overseas-mail papers, and family parcels for the city and the smaller settlements like Phillaur, Nakodar, Shahkot and Adampur every working day.