Ghorewaha

Ghorewaha is a village in Tanda tehsil, Hoshiarpur district of Punjab State, India.

It is located 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of the district headquarters at Hoshiarpur, 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) from Tanda, 42 kilometres (26 mi) from Jalandhar, and 166 kilometres (103 mi) from the state capital of Chandigarh.

The famous novel by Jagdish Chandra, which is a prescribed book in the curriculum of Hindi Literature courses of many universities, has the village of Ghorewaha as the location where the story of the novel is based.

The novel is about the 'chamars'- the cobblers who live in 'Chamadari' locality of Ghorewaha and their plight in a society dominated by the upper caste.

The village has a literacy rate of 78%.