Takal
Takal is a village in Choha Khalsa Union Council of Kallar Syedan Tehsil, Rawalpindi District of Punjab, Pakistan.
Variants
Location
Nearby towns are Bewal and Choha Khalsa. It is located about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Kallar Syedan, towards river Jehlam.
Origin
The village named after a Sikh – Tikka Lal Singh.
Jat clans
History
H. W. Bellew[1] writes that ... The Afridi are in five divisions : — 1.Mita. 2.Adam. 3.Ula. 4.Aka. 5.Miri.
1.Mita. With the exception of a small colony in the Takhal, or Takal, and adjacent villages around Peshawar city, the Mita are not now known in Afghanistan as a separate clan ; most of them having been deported to Hindostan by the Emperor Jahangir, and settled chiefly about Hydrabad in the Dakhan ; and others having emigrated at different times to the Rajput States of Central India ; some are said to have settled at Panipat near Delhi.
Sangni Fort
Sangni Fort also known as Sangani Killa is a fort of Sikh Period near the village Takal in Kallar Syedan Tehsil, Rawalpindi District, in Punjab, Pakistan.[2]
The fort was probably built in the Sikh Period (1799–1849). This area came under Sandhawalia Jat ruler Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1814. It was built to control the area and to facilitate tax collection. The British made this area part of Bewal. Gradually the fort lost its importance and became obscure. The keepers of a nearby obscure shrine moved the shrine to this fort.
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References
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan,p.91
- ↑ Hasan, Shaikh Khurshid (2005), Historical Forts In Pakistan, National Institute of Historical & Cultural Research Centre of Excellence, Quaid-i-Azam University, p. 30, ISBN 9694150698,
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