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Ghorewaha are a sub-clan of Rajput

Rajput

A Rajput is a member of one of the patrilineal clans of western, central, northern India and in some parts of Pakistan. Rajputs are descendants of one of the major ruling warrior classes in the Indian subcontinent, particularly North India...

s in India

India

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and Pakistan

Pakistan

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who are descendants of Raja Hawaha (also spelt "Ahwaha"), who became recognized for his equestrian

Equestrianism

Equestrianism more often known as riding, horseback riding or horse riding refers to the skill of riding, driving, or vaulting with horses...

prowess, hence the name "Ghorewaha" or "expert equestrian".

Raja Maan, a Kachhwaha descendant of Kush

Kusha (Ramayana)

Kusha , in Hindu mythology, was one of the twin sons of Lord Rama and Sita . Born in the Forest after Sita had been banished from Ayodhya, they were educated and trained in military skills and were under the care of Sage Valmiki....

, son of Lord Rama

Rama

Rama or full name Ramachandra is considered to be the seventh avatar of Vishnu in Hinduism, and a king of Ayodhya in ancient Indian...

, had two sons, Raja Kachwaha and Raja Hawaha. Raja Hawaha became ruler of a part of the Punjab

Punjab region

The Punjab , also spelled Panjab |water]]s"), is a geographical region straddling the border between Pakistan and India which includes Punjab province in Pakistan and the states of the Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and some northern parts of the National Capital Territory of Delhi...

in 1170 AD. Subsequently, the then Muslim Ruler of India awarded him and his brother, Raja Kachwaha, ownership of as much land as they could encircle on horseback from dawn to dusk in a single day on either side of the Sutlej River. Raja Hawaha encircled an area comprising 1,860 villages north of the Sutlej whereas his brother, Raja Kachwaha, took an area south of the Sutlej. Raja Kachwaha, thereafter, returned to his ancestral home in Jaipur

Jaipur

Jaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Founded on 18 November 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, the city today has a population of more than 3.1 million....

, Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

whereas Raja Hahawa settled on his newly acquired lands in the Punjab, hence the reason why the Ghorewaha are primarily settled in the Punjab region of modern-day Pakistan and India.
The whole story has been created by muslim historians to give credibilty to Ghorewaha's conversion to Islam. Furthermore Kachwahas have their written and recorded history of last four thousands years, and they have never come to Punjab either as traveler or conquerer. Their fictional return to Jaipur doesn't make any sense because that city was founded in 1727.
According to A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province, the Ghorewaha are the oldest Rajput rulers of the Punjab. They lived primarily in the districts of Hoshiarpur

Hoshiarpur

Hoshiarpur is a city and a municipal council in Hoshiarpur district in the Indian state of Punjab. It was founded, according to tradition, during the early part of the fourth century. In 1809 it was occupied by the forces of Maharaja Karanvir Singh and was united into the greater state of Punjab....

, Nawanshahar and Jalandhar

Jalandhar

Jalandhar is a city in Jalandhar District in the state of Punjab, India. It is located 144 km northwest of the state capital, Chandigarh...

of the Punjab before partition of the British Indian Empire in 1947. Since the majority of Ghorewahas converted to Islam

Islam

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, most migrated to Pakistan after partition in 1947, although the ones who remained Hindu continued to live on their ancestral estates in the new Republic of India.

Ghorewahas usually prefix or postfix the titles 'Raja', 'Rai', 'Rana

Rana

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' or 'Chaudhry' with their names. Previously, they also used the title 'Mian' but abandoned use of the same when non-Rajputs, such as the Arain

Arain

The Arain , are a Muslim agricultural caste settled mainly in the Punjab, with significant numbers also in Sindh. They are chiefly associated with farming, traditionally being landlords or zamindars.- Origin :...

, adopted it.

Gazetteer of the Hoshiarpur District (1883-4)

The following reference to the Ghorewaha has been made in the Gazetteer of the Hoshiarpur District (1883-4), which was compiled and published by the Punjab Government and printed at the Civil & Military Gazette Press, Lahore in 1884:

"...The country immediately north of Garhshankar is occupied by Hindu Rajputs of the Bhanot clan; and Garhshankar itself, and the villages southward as far as Balachaur, are owned by Ghorewaha Rajputs, who are Musalmans [Muslims] near Garhshankar, and Hindus near Balachaur...The Ghorewahas are found in tahsil [district] Garhshankar; near Balachaur they have adhered to Hinduism; further north, in the direction of Garhshankar, they are Musalmans...The chaudhris of Garhshankar, Balachaur, Bana, Taunsa and Saroa of the Ghorewaha clan are well known. Of the other Muhammadan [Muslim] clans, besides the Ghorewahas, noticed above, a few Manj and Bhatti Rajputs are found in different parts of the district...The Rajput Akbari families of this district are those of Garhshankar (Ghorewaha) and Hariana (Naru)..." (pp. 55-58)

According to the same Gazetteer, there were 2,716 members of the Ghorewaha clan in Hoshiarpur District in 1884 (p. 59). The Gazetteer also mentions "[i]n tahsil Garhshankar the Ghorewaha Rajputs of Garhshankar, Saroa, Balachaur and Basa Taunsa..." as being amongst the leading families of Hoshiarpur District (p. 79).

Gazetteer of the Jullundur District (Part A) (1904)

The following reference to the Ghorewaha has been made in the Gazetteer of the Jullundur District (Part A) (1904), which was compiled and published by the Punjab Government and printed at the Civil & Military Gazette Press, Lahore in 1908:

"The Ghorewaha Rajputs: The Ghorewahas are found in the greatest number in the south and east of Nawashahr Tahsil [Sub-District], as well as in the adjoining Garhshankar Tahsil of Hoshiarpur, but they also hold estates in the east of Phillaur

Phillaur

Phillaur is a town and a municipal council in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab.- Overview :Phillaur is the railway junction on the border line of Ludhiana and Jalandhar Cantonment. It was a junction for Lohian and Ferozepur. In pre-partition days, it was the main timber market of...

Tahsil, and the Grand Trunk Road between Phagwara and Phillaur may be regarded as approximately the boundary between them and the Manj Rajputs..." (p. 69)

"The Nawashahr and Phillaur Ghorewahas give almost the same account of their arrival in this country. In Samvat(indian calendar) 1130 or 1131, two brothers, Ahwaha or Hawaha and Kachwaha, sons of Raja Man, came from Kot Kurman or Kurwan on a pilgrimage to Jawala Mukhi. Near Arak or Rakh, a place in Ludhiana, close to Rupar, they met Shahabuddin, who was then the ruling monarch. They had a fine horse which they presented to the king, who, in return, gave each as much country as he could ride in a day. Hawaha took this side of the Sutlej, and Kachwaha the other side; and at night-fall, the former threw down his spear (sela), where is now the village of Selkiana, to show the limit of his domain; while the latter marked the spot he had arrived at by his bracelet (kangan), on the site of the present village of Kanganwal. After this, Kachwaha returned to Udaipur [this is widely believed to be a mistake in the Gazetteer as Kachwaha's ancestral home was Jaipur to which he had actually returned to], but Hawaha stayed here and held both territories." (pp. 69-70)

The whole story has been created by muslim historians to give credibilty to Ghorewaha's conversion to Islam. Furthermore Kachwahas have their written and recorded history of last four thousands years, and they have never come to Punjab either as traveler or conquerer. Their fictional return to Jaipur doesn't make any sense because that city was founded in 1727.

"The accounts of the successors of Hawaha are very various.

"A. According to one version, furnished to Mr. Barkley by Suleman Khan of Rahon

Rahon

Rahon is a city and a municipal council in the Nawanshahr district of the Indian state of Punjab.-Geography:Rahon is located at . It has an average elevation of 250 metres .Situated on the Jullundur City Jaijon Doaba line of the Northern Railway, Rahon is 7 KM from Nawashahr, the...

, the successor of Raja Hawaha, for 13 generations all entitled Raja, were Sirinaur, Sirikand, Markand, Baddeo, Rajeshwar, Tekhmangal, Lohar, Utho, Jaspal, Prithi, Padam, Mall and Bin. Raja Bin was the father of Rana Rajpal, and of Bhinsi. From these the following gots are descended:-

Rajpal - the descendants of Rana Rajpal, the son of Raja Bhin. Of this got are the Ghorewahas of Rahon and Shekhomazara, and those of Saroha Simli, Mukandpur and Gag in the Garhshanker Tahsil and of Bairsian, Kunail &c.

Bhinsi - descended from 4 brothers Rana Rup Chand, Anup Chand, Sarup Chand and Partab Chand, who were descended from Bhin. Of this got are those of Garhshankar, Hion, Gunachaur and Bhin.

Sard - those of Katgarh, Balachaur, Banah, Taunsah and Rail; the Raho Rajputs do not know the origin of this name." (p. 70)

"Rana Udho, the ancestor of the Rajputs of Rahon was in the 7th generation from the Rana Rajpal (the successive generations being Ajeo, Lakho, Nai, Siso, Jham, Pakho, and Udho, all entitled Rana). His ancestors are said to have come from Kot [Kurman], near Jaipur, and he himself came from Kotgarh in the Garhshankar Tahsil to Shekhomazara, and thence to Udhowal in the bet near Rahon. He and his sons, all of whom have descendants in Rahon, continued Hindus. If the conquest of Rahon was effected by him or his sons, it must have been comparatively recent, as Suleman Khan of Rahon from whom Barkley had the genealogy, and who was in 1878, about 70 years of age, was but ten generations from Udho (Pahlwan, Mansur Khan, Mahmud Khan, Taj Khan, Bula Khan, Saif Khan, Roshan Khan, Dadu Khan, Hassan Khan, Suleman Khan)." (p. 70)

"B. The account given by Mr. Purser is that Raja Hawaha's descendants founded 9 cchats (a term the meaning of which is not clear), and 12 makans, and subdivided into 12 muhi, called, according to Nawanshahr tradition, after the sons of Uttam, the fourteenth in descent from Hawaha. There was a thirteenth brother who become a Kalandar, a Muhammadan ascetic. The Phillaur ghorewahas say Jaimal, their ancestor had thirteen sons after whom the muhis are called. They are the following:

Rajpal in Nawanshahr
Sedsur in Nawanshahr and Ambala
Ambala
Ambala is a city and a municipal corporation in Ambala district in the state of Haryana, India, located on the border of the states of Haryana and Punjab in India. Politically; Ambala has two sub-areas: Ambala Cantt and Ambala City, approximately 3 kilometers apart from each other...
Bhimsi in Nawanshahr, Phillaur
Phillaur
Phillaur is a town and a municipal council in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab.- Overview :Phillaur is the railway junction on the border line of Ludhiana and Jalandhar Cantonment. It was a junction for Lohian and Ferozepur. In pre-partition days, it was the main timber market of...

and Garhshankar
Sard in Garhshankar
Sahupal in NAwanshahr
Jai Chand in Nawanshahr and Phillaur
Dip in Nawahshahr and Ludhiana
Main in Ludhiana
Rajpur in Hoshiarpur
Hoshiarpur
Hoshiarpur is a city and a municipal council in Hoshiarpur district in the Indian state of Punjab. It was founded, according to tradition, during the early part of the fourth century. In 1809 it was occupied by the forces of Maharaja Karanvir Singh and was united into the greater state of Punjab....
Salkho in Ludhiana
Aju in Hoshiarpur
Bhup in Ambala
Ladha in Ambala"

"Of these names only 1-4, 7 and 8 agree with those given by Nawanshahr Ghorewahas. The latter mention one Sahn Chand who is probably the same as Sahnpal. Some of the Ghorewahas remained Hindu, but most of them gradually converted to Islam, principally in the reign of Aurangzeb. The Nawanshahr men say their real clan is Koshal, those of Phillaur say Koshash, and that Ghorewaha is only the name of a Sub division (al) of the clan (got). The former are contended to say that the horse given by the brothers was a very fine one; the latter assert that it was the offspring of a river-horse and an ordinary terrestrial mare." (p. 71)

"The nine chat of the Ghorewahs above mentioned are Garhshanker, Punam, Saroya, Simli, Gunachaur, Kariam, Ratenda, Rahon and Hiun, of which the first four are in the Garhshankar Tahsil of Hoshiarpur, and the others in this district. The twelve makan are Matewara in Ludhiana, Samundra, and Birampur in Garhshankar, Judana in Phillaur, Bahram in Nawanshahr. The Jats say that a cchat is an important tribal centre and the makan and inferior one. In the Darbar at a marriage the mirasis used to get a certain gratuity for each cchat of which the tribe could boast and half as much for each makan; Re. 1 per cchat and annas 8 per makan. The cchat and makan thus measure the dues paid to mirasis at a marriage of the member of a tribe or a got. The more important the got, the more expensive the mirasis fees. They are said to have reached Rs.11 per chat. Mr. Barkley was given the Ghorewaha cchat as Garhshankar, Rahon, Kanian, Punam , Simli, Mir Jabhar, Mian Amir Ali Shah, Pir Hassan Jehanya of Rahon. Thus a Cchat does not necessarily imply a place but only a name, whether of a place or person in honour of which or whom the mirsasis get fees at marriage." (p. 71)

Other Historical Facts

Ghorewaha Rajputs are most numerous in Jallandhar and Nawanshahr, the tehsils nearest the hills, which contain more than two-thirds of the tribe. In Jallandhar, the Rajput villages form a broken line around the tehsil, being most numerous in the north-east, and least so in the south and south-east. In Nawanshahr, Rajputs are found everywhere in force, except in the north-west third of the Tehsil, where they are scantily represented: they are most numerous along the east border, and old bank of the Sutlej where the long villages lie partly in the up-lands and partly in the Bet. In Phillaur, they are more scattered, but here too, many estates on the old bank of the river are owned by Rajputs. In Nakodar, this tribe is found mostly in the south-west, but has some villages in the north-east, on the Bein, nor far from some Phillaur Rajput estates.

Successors of Raja Hawaha

According to Suleman Khan of Rahon, the successors of Raja Hawaha have been rajas for 13 generations. Raja Bin was the father of Rana Rajpal and Bhinsi. The Ghorewahas of Rahon and Shekhomazara and those of Saroha Simil, Mukandpur and Gag in the Garhshankar Tahsil and of Bairsian , Kunail are descended from Rana Rajpal, son of Raja Bhin.

The Raja

Raja

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of Machhiwara

Machhiwara

Machhiwara is a village and a nagar panchayat in the Ludhiana district of the Indian state of Punjab. Machhiwara is famous for Gurudwara Sri Charan Kanwal Sahib named after the Guru's feet that are compared to the lotus flower...

, Rana Udho actively assisted Emperor Akbar in his fight for the Delhi Throne, he captured the rebellious Bairam Khan and subsequently the Raja was allowed to retain the Jagir of Rahon

Rahon

The Ghorewaha find mention in the Ain-I-Akbari

Ain-i-Akbari

The Ain-i-Akbari or the "Institutes of Akbar", is a 16th century, detailed document recording the administration of emperor Akbar's empire, written by his vizier, Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak...

as the Khori Wahah and are said to be in possession of the estates of Bajwara, Dardak Mahal (Rahon

Rahon

and Phillaur

Phillaur

), Sankarbanot (Garhshanker

Garhshanker

Garhshankar is a city and a municipal council in Hoshiarpur district in the state of Punjab, India.-Etymology:The town was founded by Doad king shankar sahai. Hence the name: garh shankar .Garhshankar was founded in 1000.AD by Shankar Sahai Doad, that time king.Garhshankar was converted as a...

) and Rahimabad with a total Mansab rank of 260 Cavalry

Cavalry

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and 4900 Infantry

Infantry

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It is also worth mentioning here that the ancestral fort of Minhas

Minhas

Minhas or Manhas or Minhas-Dogra is a Suryavanshi Rajput clan from the Punjab region and Jammu & Kashmir in India and Pakistan. It is an off-shoot of Jamwal-Dogra Rajputs, the founders of the city and state of Jammu and its rulers from ancient times to 1948 CE...

Sikh Rajputs of Daroli Kalan

Daroli Kalan

Daroli Kalan is a village near Adampur in the Jalandhar district of the state of Punjab in India. It has 1212 hectares of land. The village population was 3532 in 1991 census.- Geography :Daroli Kalan is located in the fertile plains of Doaba, Punjab...

, Adampur Doaba and Heeon fort of Parmaras of Nadalon, Panjoura, Ajnoha were destroyed by Ghorewaha Rajput

Rajput

conquerors.

Until Indian independence in 1947 the Rana of Rahon and the Rajrana of Jadla controlled most of the estates, while the Muslim Rana of Rahon fled to Pakistan after Partition; the successors of the then Tikka Rana

Rana

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Saheb Lambardar

Lambardar

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Shri Labh Singh

Singh

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Bahadur of the Jagir of Jadla-Ghorewah remain in Punjab, the zamindar

Zamindar

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i was brought down to 11 villages in the 1950s and abolished in 1956 while the title was handed down to his successor Tiikka Sahib

Sahib

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Lambardar Shri Rana Sahib Jagdish Singh Bahadur.

Ghorewaha and Dahiya (Rathore) Enmity

10 Miles east of Ropar lies a small hamlet which contains the ruins of an ancient city dated to be at least 700 hundred years old. The local tradition is that the place was once ruled by a Rajput Raja of the Dahia tribe. A force of invaders of the Ghorewah section of the Rajput tribes came from the south. They pitched their tents outside the village and sent word to the Raja asking for dahi. The Raja took this demand for dahi as an insult. He sent out pitcherfuls of dung overspread with a small quantity of dahi. The strangers who were prepared for a conflict took up the gauntlet, and a battle ensued, ending in the complete victory of the Ghorewah invaders. From that day the loss of this place has become a bye-word among the Dahia Rajputs, and they say, on hearing of the birth of a child in their tribe " what if a child is born. He won't recover Bardar." The migration of the Dahia Rajputs who are Rathore

Rathore

The Rathore is a Suryavanshi Rajput clan same caste as Lohana. Their Kuldevi is Nagnechiya Mata and "Karani Mata". Rathores are originally from Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh. Rathores are historically considered the samurais of India...

s, originally found at Dahia near Manda in Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh

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to Bardar and Kurali in Punjab took place prior to this incident due to another act of a Ghorewaha Monarch. The Purohit or High Priest of the Rathore

Rathore

s of Dahia made piligrimage to Haridwar

Haridwar

Haridwar is an important pilgrimage city and municipality in the Haridwar district of Uttarakhand, India...

with his daughter, the Ghorewaha monarch who was also present there abducted his daughter and brought her to his principality in Punjab. The purohit when returned to Dahia begged the Rathores to retrieve his daughter from the Ghorewaha. The Dahias pitched their tents in the forests near the Ghorewah monarch's capital town. They launched an attack on the Ghorewahas and were severely defeated, later they settled along the forest tracts. When the Monarch's daughter was to be married, the Dahias sent a Tribute to the monarch, they tribute was pitcherfuls of Yougurt with just a layer of Yougurt (Dahi) and yellow wasps (dhaiy). When the pitchers were opened, the wasps attacked everyone and the Dahias launched another attack and the result of the battle was an accord between the Ghorewaha Raja and the Dahia Rathore Chief, the Dahias were given the Kurali. Bardar and some other areas. The incident metioned earlier by the State Gazzette was a counter offensive attack by the Ghorewahas to regain control of these lands.

Post-Partition Resettlement

The majority of Ghorewahas, who were Muslim, migrated to Pakistan in and after 1947 and settled mostly in the Punjab Province

Punjab (Pakistan)

Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...

, most notably in the districts of Sargodha

Sargodha

Sargodha is a city in the Sargodha District of Punjab province, Pakistan.Sargodha is located in the northwest of Pakistan. It is the eleventh largest city of Pakistan and also known as Pakistan's best citrus-producing area. It is an agricultural trade centre with various industries...

, Sahiwal

Sahiwal

Sahiwal is a city in Punjab, Pakistan. It is the administrative centre of Sahiwal District and Sahiwal Division. Sahiwal is approximately 180 km from the major city Lahore and is the city between Lahore and Multan...

, Chichawatni

Chichawatni

Chichawatni is a town in the Sahiwal District of the Pakistani province of Punjab. Situated near the Grand Trunk Road, it lies approximately from Sahiwal, the district capital.-Etymology:...

, Okara

Okara District

Okara District is a district of Punjab, Pakistan. The Multan Road connects the district capital, Okara with tLahore 110 km away. Okara began as a small town about 40 km from the city of Sahiwal. It later become a city in its own right. According to the 1998 census, the district had a...

, Multan

Multan

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, Sialkot

Sialkot

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and Faisalabad

Faisalabad

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(then Lyallpur).

India

Raja Hawaha - Founder of the Ghorewaha Rajput Sub-Clan - Ruler of the Punjab, c. 1070 AD

Rana Udho Ji Bahadur, Raja of Machiwara - Helped Emperor

Emperor

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Akbar in his fight for the throne of Delhi

Delhi

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and captured the rebellious Bairam Khan

Bairam Khan

Bairam Khan also Bayram Khan was a important military commander, general of the Mughal army, a powerful statesman and regent at the court of the Mughal emperors Humayun and Akbar.-Background:...

H.H. Baba
Baba (honorific)
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Sri Rana Saheb Bhoj Singhji Bahadur of Jaipur - Founded Jadla about 540 years ago, thus becoming its first Rana after the division of the Ghorewaha territory

His Grace Rana Sri Duloh Singh Ji Bahadur - Tikkaraj Ala Lambardar

Lambardar

Rana

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Bahadur of Jadla, a Panjab

Punjab region

Chief and Zamindar

Zamindar

of Jadla Zamindari.

T.H. Chaudhry Abdul Rehman Khan
Chaudhry Abdul Rehman Khan
Chaudhary Muhammad Abdul Rehman Khan was the Rana of Rahon Jagir and Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly from the Unionist Party. -Biography:...

Sahib, Rana
Rana
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of Rahon
Rahon
Rahon is a city and a municipal council in the Nawanshahr district of the Indian state of Punjab.-Geography:Rahon is located at . It has an average elevation of 250 metres .Situated on the Jullundur City Jaijon Doaba line of the Northern Railway, Rahon is 7 KM from Nawashahr, the...

Jagir - Member of the Punjab

Punjab (British India)

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Legislative Assembly from the Unionist Party, (January 3, 1927 to July 26, 1930) (October 24, 1930 to November 10, 1936) (April 5, 1937 to March 19, 1945)

His Grace Rana Sri Labh Singh Ji
Ji
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Bahadur
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- Tikkaraj Ala Lambardar Rana Bahadur of Jadla, Ala Malik

Malik

Malik is an Arabic word meaning "king, chieftain".It has been adopted in various other, mainly Islamized or Arabized, Asian languages for their ruling princes and to render kings elsewhere. It is also sometimes used in derived meanings...

and Zamindar of Jadla Zamindari

Rana Moti Singh - Veteran Indian National Congress

Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...

leader and former Punjab Congress Vice President, who received the Padma Shri

Padma Shri

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Award for Science & Engineering

Pakistan

Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan
Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan
Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan , founder of the Dar ul Islam Movement and the Dar ul Islam Trust in South Asia and the Dar ul Islam Trust Institutes in Pathankot, India and Jauharabad, Pakistan, was a civil engineer, civil servant, landowner, agriculturalist and philanthropist...

(1880–1976) - Philanthropist and Founder of the Dar ul Islam Trust Institutes in Pathankot

Pathankot

Pathankot became 22nd district on 28th July 2011 and a municipal corporation in the Indian state of Punjab. It was a part of the Nurpur princely state ruled by the Rajputs prior to 1849 AD. It is a meeting point of the three northern states of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir...

, India and Jauharabad

Jauharabad

Jauharabad is a planned town situated in Khushab District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It has a population of approximately 40,000 and it is the district headquarters of Khushab District....

, Pakistan. Member of the All-India Muslim League and supporter of the Pakistan Movement

Pakistan Movement

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Chaudhary Abdul Hameed Khan (1906–1958) - Rehabilitation Commissioner of East and West Pakistan

Rana Muhammad Hanif Khan (1921–2005) - Pakistan Finance Minister, Labour Minister, Minister for Power, Works and Rehabilitation

Rana Shamim Ahmed Khan (1942-) - Member of the Punjab Provincial Assembly (1985–1988, 1988–1990, 1990–1993, 1993–1996, 2008–present), Formerly Deputy Speaker of the Punjab Provincial Assembly and Adviser to the Chief Minister of the Punjab

Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is the current Chief Justice of Pakistan.He became chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court in 2005 and soon became not only a central figure in the nation's political struggles but an icon to the country's legal profession and others campaigning for the rule of law...

(1948-) - 20th Chief Justice of Pakistan (2005–present)

Published Sources

Gazetteer of the Hoshiarpur District (1883-4), Lahore: Civil & Military Gazette Press, 1884 (Reprint: Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications, 2001)

Gazetteer of the Jullundur District (Part A) (1904), Lahore: Civil & Military Gazette Press, 1908 (Reprint: Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications, 2000)

Ibbetson, Denzil; Maclagan, Edward D.; and Rose, H.A., A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province, Lahore: Civil & Military Gazette Press, 1911 (3 Volumes) (Based on the Census Report for the Punjab, 1893, by the late Sir Denzil Ibbetson and the Census Report for the Punjab, 1892, by Sir Edward D. Maclagan and compiled by H.A. Rose), pp. 292, 295-296 (Reprint: Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications, 2007)

Patti, Naseeruddin Khan, History of Kaushal (Ghorewaha) Rajputs, Lahore: 1976 (Urdu)

Ibbetson, Denzil, Punjab Castes, Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications, 2001 (Reprint), p. 161 (338 pp.) (This book reproduces the chapter titled "The Races, Castes and Tribes of the People" from the original 1883 Census Report for the Punjab by Sir Denzil Ibbetson)

Online Sources

http://namdar.net/Ghorewaha.htm - Scanned extract from the Gazetteer of the Jullundur District (Part A) (1904), Lahore: Civil & Military Gazette Press, 1908 (Reprint: Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications, 2001)

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