Kalusa, India

Kalusa (Hindi: कलूसा; Urdu:کلوسا) is a village in Bandipore, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

About 72 families of Kashmiri Pandits lived in this village immediately before the mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir. Presently as on January 2009 only about 4 Kashmiri Pandit families live there. The rest of the population are Kashmiri Muslims.

A Sharda Mandir, (Temple) believed to be a stop of the Maa Sharda, whose original temple is in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

There are two big mosques. One at Khan Mohalla and other near Jan's, ex-Zilladars of the village.

Some people believe that a hermit named "Kalsha" used to offer prayers in this village in ancient times and the village was thus named after him. But with the passage of time the name deformed first from "Kalsha" to "Kalusha" and then to "Kalusa" which is the name of the village now. It is divided on the basis of occupation KHan Mollah Generally had those working with wood work, Bata mollah (composed of Kashmiri pandits), Grees Mollah (farmers), Faqir Mollah (those who amused people with poetry), Khari Mollah (iron smiths). The people living in this village had good relations with each other before millitancy. Hindues and Muslims lived like brothers. Hindu left because of the happenings in other parts of valley.