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'''Tikola Kalan''', also referred to as '''Tekaula Kalan''' or '''Tikola''', is a village situated in [[Roorkee]] tehsil, in [[Haridwar district]] of [[Uttarakhand]], [[India]]. Located in the [[Garhwal division|Garhwal region]] in the [[Sivalik|Shivalik hills]] of the [[Himalayas|Himalayan range]] of northern India, it lies approximately {{convert|58|km|abbr=on}} from [[Dehradun]], the state capital, and around {{convert|157|km|abbr=on}} from [[New Delhi]], the national capital.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tikola Kalan, India - Facts and information on Tikola Kalan - India.Places-in-the-world.com |url=https://india.places-in-the-world.com/10181204-place-tikola-kalan.html |access-date=2024-09-12 |website=india.places-in-the-world.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Nevill |first=H. R. |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.48115 |title=Saharanpur - A Gazetteer |date=1909 |pages=67}}</ref>

===Rise of new name Tikola Kalan===

Tikola is named after Tikku Singh. Tikku Singh had settled this village. People used to call this village Tikku Wala. Then it came to be known as Tiko Wala. Now its name has changed from Tikku Wala to Tikola. Due to the large population of the village, [[Kalan]] started being added to the name of Tikola, which is used by the [[Government of India]] for villages with large population.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gurukul Kangri Collection |url=https://archive.org/details/hdJO_gair-mamuli-jaind-gazette-1940-number-5-gurukul-kangri-collection |title=Gair Mamuli Jaind Gazette 1940 Number 5 Gurukul Kangri Collection}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/the-gujjars-vol-01-a-book-on-history-and |title=The GUJJARS Vol 01 A Book On History And}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Grossman |first=David |title=The Geographical Study of Rural Settlements |date=2019-09-16 |work=Rural Settlement Structure and African Development |pages=13–31 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429305146-2 |access-date=2024-09-16 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-429-30514-6 |last2=Siddle |first2=David}}</ref>

==Demography==