Rankhandi is a village in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, located seven kilometers from Deoband.
Cornell maintains research documents on the Rankhandi project in its archives.
[1] The village is largely inhabited by the Pundir Rajputs and has been a major centre of education in the area for many years.
Its intermediate level school is the Thakur Phool Singh Memorial Intercollege (formerly Kissan Vidyalya).
Other castes in the village include the Pal, Kori, Gosain, Barhai and Ranghar, Pandit.