This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
This article records what is reported locally rather than what the atlas can cite from a catalogued study. In villages of the upper Tons valley, in the Uttarkashi district of Garhwal in the Indian Himalaya, residents relate that Duryodhana is their presiding deity and that he has a temple and an annual fair, and that Karna is honoured in the same valley. Visitors are told that the ancestors of these villages sided with the Kauravas, and that the family that lost the war at Kurukshetra was not the family the epic says deserved to lose.
Villagers who explain the practice do not usually contest the events the epic narrates. What they contest is the verdict on them, and they describe Duryodhana in the terms his own speeches in the poem use: a generous lord who kept faith with the friend everyone else refused, and who was killed by a blow that broke the rules of the duel. The god they keep is the one the epic acknowledges and then sets aside.
The atlas holds this as reported tradition. The account reaches the wider world through travellers, journalists and regional writers rather than through any study catalogued here, and the details of which shrines belong to which lineage, how the fair is timed and how the practice relates to the wider Garhwali village deity system are precisely what a secondary account tends to flatten. Nothing in the entry should be read as the atlas asserting the history of the settlements in its own voice.