Bholath, Begowal and Dhilwan are the small towns of Kapurthala district, in the Doaba between the Beas and the Sutlej.
The belt is heavily emigrated. Houses are locked, gurdwaras are extended, schools are shrinking, and the money comes from Britain, Canada and Italy.
Begowal holds Dera Beas connections and a set of religious establishments; Dhilwan is a market town on the Beas side.
Sultanpur Lodhi and the Kali Bein are in the same district, and the restoration work there is the belt's one clear public success in fifty years.
This is the ordinary Doaba: good land, small holdings, high literacy, high emigration, and nothing written down about any of it.
Kapurthala state's territory was scattered, which is why Phagwara is separated from the rest of the district by Jalandhar land, and why these small towns each have a slightly different administrative history.
Begowal holds the Dera Sant Sarwan Dass connection and Bholath has been a politically prominent constituency out of proportion to its size.
The emigration here is old: Britain from the 1950s, Canada since, and Italy for the dairy work since the 1990s. A Bholath household with a member in Brescia and another in Surrey is entirely ordinary and there is no study of what that does to a village of two thousand people.