Batamaloo
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Batamaloo is a locality near Srinagar city in Srinagar district of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
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Location
It is situated just about 2.5 km from Lal Chowk, Srinagar. Batmaloo was also famous for its Main Bus Stop, Where every Bus from every District will halt but later this bus stop was moved to Qamarwari and this caused major loss in business in Batmaloo area, Shopkeepers, Daily wedgers, Mechanics and others lost there business and those shops now looks like Haunting Places where no one comes. [1]
Origin
Batamaloo is derived from Batmoul, which is composed of the two words "batte", signifying cooked rice, and "moul", signifying father, in Kashmiri.
History
Batamaloo is known for the annual Urs Mubarak of Sufi saint Sheikh Dawood Sahib popularly known as Batmol Sahib.[2]
Jat History
Shankar Lal Barala was in CRPF jawan, a resident of Tejpura village in Shahpura area near Jaipur, was martyred on 24.7.2018 in a terror attack in Batamaloo locality of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.