Sandhanwalia
Jat Clan
LocationAmritsar, Pathankot
BranchesBhatti Tribe
LanguagePunjabi
Religion Sikhism
SurnamesSandhanwalia





Sandhawalia or Sandhanwalia
is a Jat clan (got) of present-day India and Pakistan
Sandhawalia is a very  small Jat Tribe (or gotra) originally from Rajasthan and now living in Punjab. In the 1881 Census it was listed as one of the smallest of the Jat tribes.[1][2] Sandhawalia is a small Jat gotra consisting of landowners and landed-farmers.
Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the Jat Sikh ruler of Punjab, and his family asserted lineage from this Jat tribe[3][4][5] that originated from their ancestor Raja Shah (Salvahan)(Descendants of Bhatti Jat from Punjab)[6][7][8] The Sandhawalia Jatt tribe was inconspicuous before Ranjit Singh's assertion.[9]

Distribution

The Sandhawalia tribe population was 682, in Amritsar district, during the 1911 British Punjab Census[10] and esimated to have grown to 2,046 within Amritsar district in 1994.[11]

Notable persons

  • Maharaja Ranjit Singh Sandhanwalia 
  • Thakur Singh Sandhanwalia ( Cousin of Maharaja Duleep Singh Sandhanwalia)
  • Raghbir Singh Sandhawalia, Sandhawalia - Jat, From Amritsar district was in the List of Punjab Chiefs.
  • Sardar Sahib Singh and
  • Sirdar Gurdit Singh of Ladwa were members of the Krora Singhia confederacy. They were Sandhanwalia Jats of the village of Bain Poin, ten miles of south of Amritsar.

Further Reading

  • Noblemen and Kinsmen History of a Sikh Family: History of a Sikh Family, By Preminder Singh Sandhawalia (Author), (Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers. Date:1999, ISBN 8121509149).[12][13]

References

  1. Jump up↑ History of the Jatt Clans - H.S Duleh (Translation from original Punjabi work "Jattan da Itihas" by Gurjant Singh).
  2. Jump up↑ 1911 census of British Punjab - Major General Barstow
  3. Jump up↑ Noblemen and Kinsmen History of a Sikh Family: History of a Sikh Family, Author = Preminder Singh Sandhawalia, Year = 1999, Publisher = Munshiram Manoharlal, ISBN 8121509149
  4. Jump up↑ History of the Jatt Clans - H.S Duleh (Translation from original Punjabi work "Jattan da Itihas" by Gurjant Singh).Jump up
  5. Jump up↑ Ram Swaroop Joon: History of Jats, India.
  6. Jump up↑ Jean-Marie Lafont, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Lord of the Five Rivers. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 0195661117).
  7. Jump up↑ Thakur Deshraj, Jat Itihas, Delhi, 1934.
  8. Jump up↑ Noblemen and Kinsmen History of a Sikh Family: History of a Sikh Family, Author = Preminder Singh Sandhawalia, Year = 1999, Publisher = Munshiram Manoharlal, ISBN 8121509149
  9. Jump up↑ 1911 census of British Punjab - Major General Barstow
  10. Jump up↑ History and study of the Jats, Author = Professor B.S. Dhillon, Year = 1994 Publisher = Beta Publishers, ISBN 1895603021

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