Jyotisar is the place in Kurukshetra where Krishna is believed to deliver the sermon of Gita to Arjuna in the Mahabharata.

The district derived its name from the ancient region of Kurukshetra, which literally means the land of the Kurus.

The district is divided into 4 sub-divisions, each headed by a Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM): Shahabad, Thanesar, Ladwa and Pehowa.

The district has 4 revenue tehsils, namely, Thanesar, Pehowa, Shahabad and Ladwa and 2 sub-tehsils - Babain and Ismailabad.

According to the 2011 census Kurukshetra district has a population of 964,655,[2] roughly equal to the nation of Fiji[3] or the US state of Montana.

The oldest Period-I Northern Black Polished Ware (NBPW) has pottery from the 4th century BCE.

Habitation at the site was abandoned after period-II, and resettled in the medieval times in the Period-III which has [[lakhori bricks]] and pre-Mughal glazed ware, ruins of late medieval fortification, hauz of lakhauri bricks plastered with lime.

For more than 2000 years now, Srimad Bhagawad Gita has emerged as the one scripture which is free from the tags of religions and communities.