Ancestral home of '62 war hero in Uttarakhand to be made museum
Reported by The Times of India.
Basai observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
The principal temple recorded for Kashipur mandal is Hanuman Mandr. No temple of this dedication is on record within Basai 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.
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By population, Basai ranks #11 of 74 villages in Kashipur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Basai is a village of 4,262 people in 730 households (Census 2011) in Kashipur tehsil, Udam Singh Nagar district, Uttarakhand, the 11th-largest of 74 villages in Kashipur tehsil. Literacy is 57%, 6 points below the tehsil average of 63% and the sex ratio is 930 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 244713, served by Kashipur (Udham Singh Nagar) post office; the LGD village code is 55630. The village votes in Bajpur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Yashpal Arya. The population is estimated at 5,025 in 2026, up 18% 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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