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Thathal تھتھال 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... & Jatt Clan
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Descended from:	Suryavanshi 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
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Religion	Islam Islam Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~... & Hindusim & 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...
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Surnames:	Thathal, Thothal, Thathar, Thothar, Tharar, Thatal, Thathial, Raja, Chaudhry

Thathal (t̪ʰət̪ʰaːl ), also referred to as Thothal (t̪ʰoːt̪ʰaːl ) and Thathiyal (t̪ʰət̪ʰiːaːl ), is a 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...

/Jatt

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,...

clan of the area between Salt Range

Salt Range

The Salt Range is a hill system in the Punjab province of Pakistan, deriving its name from its extensive deposits of rock salt. The range extends from the Jhelum River to the Indus, across the northern portion of the Punjab province. The Salt Range contains the great mines of Mayo, Khewra, Warcha...

, Gujrat

Gujrat

Gujrat is a city in Pakistan. It is the capital of Gujrat District and the Gujrat Tehsil subdivision in the Punjab Province. People living in Gujrat refer to themselves as Gujratis, which sometimes leads to confusion with people from the Indian state of Gujarat which adjoins Pakistan...

, Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi , locally known as Pindi, is a city in the Pothohar region of Pakistan near Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, in the province of Punjab. Rawalpindi is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad...

, Sialkot

Sialkot

Sialkot is a city in Pakistan situated in the north-east of the Punjab province at the foothills of snow-covered peaks of Kashmir near the Chenab river. It is the capital of Sialkot District. The city is about north-west of Lahore and only a few kilometers from Indian-controlled Jammu.The...

, Narowal

Narowal

Narowal is a city in the northeast of the Punjab province of Pakistan. The city is the capital of Narowal District and tehsil. It is situated on the banks of Ravi River about 4–5 km from the Indian border.-Etymology:...

district, Kharian

Kharian

Kharian is a city of Gujrat District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The chief city of Kharian Tehsil, it lies almost midway between Lahore and Islamabad on the Grand Trunk Road . This is the road which connects the city all the way to Bangladesh, India and Afghanistan and was used during...

Pubbi and Azad Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. Thathals are also found 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....

and Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh is a state in Northern India. It is spread over , and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on the north, Punjab on the west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on the south, Uttarakhand on the south-east and by the Tibet Autonomous Region on the east...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. According to their clan traditions and bards they are said to be the descendants of an Indian king named Raja Karan Singh
Karan Singh
Karan Singh is an MP in the Rajya Sabha, a senior member of the ruling Indian National Congress Party serving as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Department, President of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations , India's Ambassador to UNESCO, Chairman of the Auroville Foundation and of the Temple...

. Karan singh was a Raja

Raja

Raja is an Indian term for a monarch, or princely ruler of the Kshatriya varna...

of Kashmir

Kashmir

Kashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range...

. Thathals claim the Suryavanshi branch of Rajput

Rajput

ancestry from Raja Karan Singh

Karan Singh

Karan Singh is an MP in the Rajya Sabha, a senior member of the ruling Indian National Congress Party serving as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Department, President of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations , India's Ambassador to UNESCO, Chairman of the Auroville Foundation and of the Temple...

through his son Raja Thathu whose other son Naru founded the Narma

Narma

The Narma are a Rajput tribe found in India and Pakistan.-References:*Glossary of tribes and castes by H.A.Rose*Punjabi Musalman, Lieut JM Wikeley*Narma Rajput Tribe...

/Narwa

Narwa

Narwa is a Jatt/Rajput Gotra of India/Pakistan. The Jatt section use the name Narwa while the Rajput section call themselves Narma. Places like Narwal are founded by Narwa Jatts....

clan.
A section of Thathals claims to belong to the Rajput

Rajput

clan while the other section prefer to stick to the Jatt identity.

Thothal (تھوتھال) or Thathal (تھتھال)

Due to many dialects of the Punjabi/Hindi language the pronunciation of Thathal differs according to locality. In Potowar/Mirpur it is pronounced Thothal. In Gujrat district it is written Thathal or Thathiyal. Other variations of the name in Pakistan and India include Thathar, Tharar and Thorar.

Main section of the clan accepts "Thathal" as the correct name. But there is a considerable section who claim that the correct name is "Thothal". This argument is based on the claim that the name of Karan singh's son was not "Thathu" but "Thotho". Thotho was the one who first converted to Islam

Islam

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

. There is no documented proof of this claim. It is based on the story passed through generations and told by the elders of the clan. After a few generations, the descendants of Thotho were called Thotho-al. Al (ˈaːl : (Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

:آل) is an Arabic word which means descendent. Thotho-al means, the descendents of Thotho. With the passage of the time, Thotho-al became Thothal.

According to the Thothals, majority of the clan members call themselves "Thathal", because either they speak carelessly or they really don't know the correct name of the clan. An interesting example to justify their claim is the people from village Mehmand Chak

Mehmand Chak

Mehmad Chak is a village in Tehsil Kharian, in the Gujrat District of Punjab, Pakistan. It is located at 32°47'N 73°49.4'E at an altitude of 900 feet. Mainly people of the Thathal tribe live there....

, Tehsil Kharian

Kharian

of district Gujrat

Gujrat

, Pakistan. People of Mehmand Chak call themselves "Thathal", while in the record of Tehsil Kharian, they are registered as "Thothal". A group of the clan also call themselves as "Thathiyal".

Thathals history

Indian History revolves mostly about kings, their battles, conquest, defeats etc. Therefore it is not easy to find the history of a clan. The only reliable source of information about a clan is to be "A glossary of the tribes and castes of the Punjab and North-West" by Edward Maclagan & H.A. Rose. In this book, we find a "genealogical tree of the Narwa/narma" the cousin tribe of Thathals.
A group of Thathals claim to belong to Jatt clan while the other claim to be Rajput

Rajput

s. According to A Glossary of the Tribe and casts of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Provinces by E.D. Maclagan and H.A. Rose, "Thuthal, A tribe of Muhammadan Jatts found in Gujrat. It claims Surajbansi (Suryavanshi) origin by descent from Thathu, son of Raja karn singh, whose other son Naru, founded the narwa". The explanation of the different section of the same clan is that at a certain time in history, Thathals lost their power. Which forced them to leave their age old warrior profession and turn to the cultivation for their survival. This transformation has also taken place in other Rajput

Rajput

groups too, which eventually led them being labeled as Jatts instead of Rajput

Rajput

s.

Nowadays those Thathals who call themselves Rajput

Rajput

s use "Raja" as their royal title while the Jatt section use "Chaudhry" as a royal title.

Villages Of Thathals

There are some villages in India and Pakistan with Thathals concentration Like Khambi

Khambi

Khambi and Kaleechpur is a large village of Sarai Alamgir Tehsil district Gujrat, Pakistan. Mainly Thathal and Chib families live there.Kambhi Kaleechpur or Kambhi Khanpur is bound on two sides by the river Jhelum and Upper Canal Jhelum and on the other two sides by small streams. The population...

, Mehmand Chak

Mehmand Chak

, Hoshiarpur

Hoshiarpur

(India). Include some villages of Azad Kashmir

Azad Kashmir

Azad Jammu and Kashmir or Azad Kashmir for short, is the southernmost political entity within the Pakistani-administered part of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir...

and Potohar region include Chakwal

Chakwal

Chakwal is the capital of Chakwal District, Punjab, Pakistan. It is located 90 km south-east of the federal capital, Islamabad and is named after Chaudhry Chaku Khan, chief of the Mair Minhas tribe from Jammu, who founded it in 1525 CE during the era of the Mughal Emperor, Zaheerudun Babur...

, Dheri Thothal, Rawat

Rawat

Rawat may refer to:* Rawat, Murree, a town in Punjab, Pakistan* Rawat Fort, early 16th century fort built by the Gakhars in Punjab, PakistanCommunities* Rawat Rajputs, ethnic group of India* Van Rawats, a native minority group from Uttarakhand, India....

, Jatli

Jatli

Jatli is a town in Gujar Khan Tehsil, Punjab, Pakistan. Jatli is also chief town of Union Council Jatli which is an administrative subdivision of the Tehsil.-History:...

, Mora Thathal and Tarlai Kalan

Tarlai Kalan

Tarlai Kalan is a town in the Islamabad Capital Territory, close to Islamabad. It is considered to be an origin of all those Thathals who had moved to Azad Kashmir and other villages around the Potohar Plateau. The ancestor of Thathals who belonged from Tarlai Kalan was "Rai Dalia Singh"...

. Mirpur has a large concentration of Thathals as does Chakswari

Chakswari

Chakswari is a Tehsil in the Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir in Pakistan. It is composed of approximately 25 Union councils including the New Town of Islamgarh...

.

Tarlai Kalan

Tarlai Kalan

(quite a big town nowadays, comes under the rural areas of Islamabad

Islamabad

Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...

(the Capital Territory of Pakistan) is considered to be an origin of all those Thathals who had moved to Azad Kashmir

Azad Kashmir

Azad Jammu and Kashmir or Azad Kashmir for short, is the southernmost political entity within the Pakistani-administered part of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir...

and other villages around the Potohar Plateau. The ancestor of Thathals who belonged from Tarlai Kalan was "Rai Dalia Singh". All Thathals have been recorded in a family tree since the time of "Rai Dalia Singh", but the exact date is unknown. This family tree is still maintained and is up to date, where more than 15 generations can be found.

Moreover, Khambi

Khambi

Kaleechpur is a large village of the Tehsil Sarai Alamgir

Sarai Alamgir Tehsil

Sarai Alamgir Tehsil is one of three Tehsils in District of Gujrat. The Tehsil is located on the eastern bank of the Jhelum River across from the larger town of Jhelum...

, Gujrat District

Gujrat District

Gujrat is a district of Punjab Province in Pakistan. It is an ancient district located in between two famous rivers, the Jhelum and Chenab. Because of its proximity with the rivers the land is good for cultivation with rice and sugar cane as main crops...

, Pakistan. Mainly the Thathal and Chib

Chib

The Chib Rajput , is a Chandravanshi Rajput clan found in the northern parts of India and Pakistan. They are mostly a Kashmiri or Punjabi tribe found in both India and Pakistan...

families live there.

Sahan Kalan

Sahan Kalan

Sahan Kalan is a village in Tehsil Kharian, in the Gujrat District of Pakistani Punjab, 4 km southeast of Kotla Arab Ali Khan and 35 km north of Gujrat. It is situated at 32°49'30"N, 74°06'17"E. The name Sahan Kalan comes from Persian words meaning Big Strong man.The main tribe in the village is...

is a village in Tehsil Kharian

Kharian

, in the Gujrat

Gujrat

District of Pakistan

Pakistan

i Punjab

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...

, 4 km southeast of Kotla Arab Ali Khan

Kotla Arab Ali Khan

Kotla Arab Ali Khan is a small town based on market/bazzar. The town is located at 32°51'05N 74°04'20E and is situated near the border with Azad Kashmir and Punjab, Pakistan. Kotla Arab Ali Khan is the Union Council of Tehsile Kharian located in the Gujrat District of Pakistan...

and 35 km north of Gujrat. The name Sahan Kalan

Sahan Kalan

comes from Persian

Persian language

Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

words meaning Big Strong man. The main tribe in the village is the Thathal Jatt.

Villages named on Thathal/Thothal

There are some villages owned by Thathals in Pakistan and India like:

Basti Lal Thathal(Pakistan)
Dhok Thathal(Pakistan)
Mohra Thathal (Pakistan)
Nangal Thathal
Nangal Thathal
Nangal Thathal is a village in the Hoshiarpur district of Punjab, India....

(India).
Thathal is a small village in Tehsil: Hoshiarpur-i, District: Hoshiarpur, State: Punjab (India).
Thathal is a small village in Tehsil: Amb, District: Una, State: Himachal Pradesh (India).
Thothal(Pakistan)
Dheri Thothal(Pakistan)

Chak Thothar, Rurka kalan, District : Jalandhar.Punjab .
Thathar Jammu Kashmir.
Thathal in D.I. Khan

Potha in Jhelum

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