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Golikhet observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
Temples near Golikhet
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Lansdowne mandal is Bhairavgarhi Temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Golikhet itself.
Ramlila through the nine nights and the burning of Ravana, Meghnad and Kumbhakarna effigies on Dussehra evening. Kullu Dussehra in Himachal begins on Vijayadashami and runs a week, with village deities carried to Dhalpur maidan.
The regional form observed across North India. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Golikhet ranks #183 of 243 villages in Lansdowne mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Golikhet is a village of 35 people in 8 households (Census 2011) in Lansdowne tehsil, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, the 183rd-largest of 243 villages in Lansdowne tehsil. Literacy is 69%, 4 points below the tehsil average of 72% and the sex ratio is 1,188 women per 1,000 men. It lies 30 km from the Pauri Garhwal district centre, 26 km from Harsoli, the nearest town, 13 km from Kotdwara railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 246155, served by Lansdowne post office; the LGD village code is 47483. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Lansdowne, 6 km away. The village votes in Lansdowne assembly constituency, represented by MLA Daleep Singh Rawat. The population is estimated at 41 in 2026, up 17% since the 2011 Census.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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