Sankhol

Sankhol is a village located in Bahadurgarh, just 30 km from Jhajjar city in Jhajjar district, Haryana, India and along NH 9 (formerly NH 10). Sankhol comes in Assembly constituency 64-Bahadurgarh. The village has four polling stations (polling station no. 56, 57, 58, 59). Today the village is 403 years old (as in 2018) with 25–30 generation of people born.

Demographics
India census, Sankhol had a population of 5178. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Sankhol has an average literacy rate of 70%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 78%, and female literacy is 60%. In Sankhol, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age.

History
In Samwat 1672 (i.e. On 5TH NOVEMBER 1615; on Guru Nanak Jayanti ) Kartika month on Thursday Purnima Ch. SUKHLA RATHI RATHI established the village SANKHOL along with people from 7 different cast. Ch. Sukhla Rathi was a Kshatriya Jat originally from Tungdesh (now Prabhas Patan, Somnath, Gujrat) and moved to Sankhol in search for a better place for prosperity while halting at Hastinapur, Tamargarh, Delhi (Mehrauli), Gopalgarh, Hariyapur, Kasar, Parnala, Sarfabad (now Bahadurgarh) and finally at Sankhol.

The village was internally divided into three Pannas by the three brothers of 6–7 generation becoming the head of each Panna i.e. Bhortha, Gullar and Baggri.

Brigadier Hoshier Singh Rathee
Brigadier Hoshiar Singh IOM, IDSM, Croix De Guerre was the commander of the Indian 62 Brigade stationed at Sela Pass. Brigadier Singh was killed in action, along with a few Indian troops during the 1962 Sino-Indian War. Brigadier Hoshiar Singh was commended for his bravery in the war. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, along with Pratap Singh Kairon, the then Chief Minister of Punjab, had visited this village personally to pay homage to the late Brigadier. Pandit Ram Kishan Sharma Pandit Ram Kishan Sharma was a very noble person who lived in Bagra Paana in White House. He was close friend of the Brigadier .His wife Bishambhari Devi was a very pious lady, she was a messiah of the poor and the downtrodden.She was popularly known as 'Bhedo' in the village