Village: Ramewal
Coordinates	31.0488°N 75.36°E
Occupiers	Chung Clan
Sub-tehsil	Nurmahal Nurmahal NurMahal or Noor Mahal is a city and a municipal council in Jalandhar district in the Indian State of Punjab. It is a small town located near the Lohian Khas-Nakodar -Ludhiana line in Punjab. This town is also connected with its sister towns of Phillaur and Nakodar by a road which goes side by...
District	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...
State	Punjab
Area telephone	1826
Postal code
Time zone	UTC+5:30 UTC+5:30 UTC+05:30 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +05:30. This time is used in:-See also:*Indian Standard Time*Madras Time*Sri Lanka Time*Bangladesh*Nepal...

Ramewal is a village in Nurmahal

Nurmahal

NurMahal or Noor Mahal is a city and a municipal council in Jalandhar district in the Indian State of Punjab. It is a small town located near the Lohian Khas-Nakodar -Ludhiana line in Punjab. This town is also connected with its sister towns of Phillaur and Nakodar by a road which goes side by...

. Nurmahal is a sub-tehsil in the city Jalandhar District

Jalandhar District

Jalandhar district , Jalandhar Zilā) is one of the 22 districts in the state of Punjab in North-West Republic of India. The capital is Jalandhar City...

 in the state of Punjab, India.

About

Ramewal is almost 6 km from Nurmahal

Nurmahal

NurMahal or Noor Mahal is a city and a municipal council in Jalandhar district in the Indian State of Punjab. It is a small town located near the Lohian Khas-Nakodar -Ludhiana line in Punjab. This town is also connected with its sister towns of Phillaur and Nakodar by a road which goes side by...

. The nearest Railway station to Ramewal is Nurmahal Railway station.
Most of the occupiers of the village have the last name Chung, alternate spellings include Chungh and Choong.
Chung is a subclan of Waraich, a warrior ethnic clan of the Jat people

Jat people

The Jat people are a community of traditionally non-elite tillers and herders in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subsequently into the Delhi Territory,...

 of India and Pakistan who are descendants of Indo-Scythian tribes. .

Chung History and Origin

History of Nurmahal and Jalandhar

Nurmahal was built on a place where an ancient town, called Kot Kahlur, was located which was proven by the bricks and many coins found beneath the soil of this town. It is believed that the ancient city was abandoned or destroyed around 1300 for an unknown reason. Maharaja Jassa Singh Ahluwalia Took This City Under His Control.

Nurmahal is named after Noor Jahan

Nur Jehan

Begum Nur Jahan , also known as Mehr-un-Nisaa, was an Empress of the Mughal Dynasty that ruled much of the Indian subcontinent...

, the wife of Mughal

Mughal Empire

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 emperor Jahangir

Jahangir

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 (1605-1627) as she was brought up here, and is thought to have spent her childhood here.

Jalandhar and Multan

Multan

Multan , is a city in the Punjab Province of Pakistan and capital of Multan District. It is located in the southern part of the province on the east bank of the Chenab River, more or less in the geographic centre of the country and about from Islamabad, from Lahore and from Karachi...

 are the oldest surviving cities of the Punjab region

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...

, with historical references as far back as A.D. 100. The Jalandhar Doab (the region surrounding the city between the Beas

Beas River

The Beas River is a river in the northern part of India. The river rises in the Himalayas in central Himachal Pradesh, India, and flows for some 470 km to the Sutlej River in the Indian state of Punjab....

 and Sutlej

Sutlej

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 rivers) also marked the easternmost territory of the empire of Alexander the Great.

Immigration to the west

There are many people who reside in the village (pind) of Ramewal and it is respectably populated. Some of those who are from Ramewal have immigrated to the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.

Religion

The main Religion followed by the majority in Ramewal is Sikhism

Sikhism

Sikhism is a monotheistic religion founded during the 15th century in the Punjab region, by Guru Nanak Dev and continued to progress with ten successive Sikh Gurus . It is the fifth-largest organized religion in the world and one of the fastest-growing...

. The minority are followers of either Islam

Islam

Islam . The most common are and .   : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...

 or Hindhuism.

Development

Ramewal is a fast growing village and is making a lot of advancements. There are a lot of developments installed for the village in the near future. Currently the construction of a Gurdwara is on-going. The Village and those who reside in it are making a name for themselves.

Villages around Ramewal

Ajtani

Ajtani

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Bhullar

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Bilga

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Cheema

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Gorsian Nihal

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Gumtala

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 Gumtali

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Kandola Kalan

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, Khokhewal

Khokhewal

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, Kot Badal Khan

Kot Badal Khan

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Partabpura

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, Pharwala

Pharwala

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Qadian

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Rajowal

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, Rampur

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Saidowal

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Shadipur

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Shamshabad

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Talwan

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