Dinanagar is a town and a municipal council in Gurdaspur district in the Majha region of the state of Punjab, India.

It was founded by Adina Beg 1730, on the bank of Hasli or Shah Nahar as his residence and cantonment.

It was here that in May 1838 he received the Macnaghten mission which negotiated the proposed alliance for placing Shah Shujah Durrani on the throne of Kabul.

[2] After the annexation of the Punjab as British territory in March 1849, a new district of Adinanagar was constituted with Dinanagar as its headquarters.

In July 1849 the civil and Military escorts were transferred to Batala as Dinanagar was thought unhealthy and in 1852 it became part of Gurdaspur district.

The Rowlatt ACT passed in March 1919 invested the Government with extraordinary powers to suppress any kind of political agitation.

In 1920, the non-cooperation movement was started by Mahatma Gandhi due to alliance with Khilafat leader Jallianwala Bagh massacre and Rowllat Act.

The Government made every effort to stop the movement and a large number of persons courted imprisonment.

A durbar was held at Dinanagar to discuss the situation created by Gandhi by H. Harcourt, the Deputy Commissioner.

Swami Sawtantra Nand founded Dayanand Math in 1938 – an institution that became a center of learning and Ayurveda.

Killed were two civilians, Superintendent of Police (Detective) Baljit Singh, two home guards and two policemen.

Town is Near the shivalik, so receives good showers during winter which are generally persistent from West.

The denudation of forests due to increasing population, urbanization industrialization have accelerated the process of environmental degradation in the town.

The agriculture is dependent to a large extent on the nature of its soils which in turn, is influenced materially by climatic factors.

It is a source of potassium nitrate which can be used for making crackers and gunpowder, in match and sugar industry and as fertilizer.

The table below shows the population of different religious groups in Dina Nagar city and their gender ratio, as of 2011 census.