Dasuya, Mukerian and Tanda are the three market towns of northern Hoshiarpur district, along the Beas and the road to Pathankot.
Dasuya is old and is identified in tradition with Virat Nagar of the Mahabharata, where the Pandavas spent their year in hiding. The identification is traditional and there are several competing claimants elsewhere in India.
Mukerian sits where the Kandi meets the plain and is the junction for the Ranjit Sagar and Mukerian hydel projects, which take the Beas for power and irrigation.
Tanda was a Ramgarhia misl holding and is a market town for the Beas bet country.
This belt is where Punjab's plain runs out into the Kandi and then into the Himachal foothills, and its villages have the smallest holdings, the poorest water and the highest emigration in the district.
The tract along the Beas here was Ramgarhia and Kanhaiya misl country. The fortresses of that period have gone, though mounds are visible at several villages.
Mukerian's position on the railway toward Pathankot and Jammu made it a transhipment point, and its trade is in fruit and timber coming down from the hills.
Tanda's woodwork and Dasuya's grain market are what those towns run on. Emigration from the belt is heavy, mostly to Britain and Italy, and the villages show it in the same way the rest of the Doaba does.