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History of Jhajjar


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all of his male children in order to finish his name. but one son was hided by his servants in the wheat pools and he remained alive. ch akbar ali khan was sentenced to death on 23-10-1857. choudhary akbar ali khan was a freedom fighter and shaheed of 1857. he gave his life and family for fighting against British and defending his homeland. but the informers were awarded for their treachery and British announced that if any person from their family comes, he will be employed in British (Indian)army without any interview. ch akbar ali khan was very generous and kind. he had a very wast mehal that contained a rectangular courtyard. all the marriages were held in his mehal and barats stayed there. he used to help a lot of people. he always kept the pathans united but after his death all the pathans got scattered and went into decline except the treachers. nowadays his successors live in sargodha and dera ghazi khan, Pakistan and they are proud of being the successors of a freedom fighter but how strange it is that the successors of the treachers are also proud of their ancestors and boast of the relations of their ancestors with the British? A great question to think about.

Jhajjar suffered many vicissitudes of fortune. It was sacked by Muhammad Ghori; then rebuilt by Jats and Ahir tribes.[10]

Before the partition of India, there lived a tribe of Yusufzai Pathans from Afghanistan, which were further classified into Choudharizade pathans, lalkhani, qaimkhani, jhabookhani, emaadkhani, chotey derwaze waley and barey derwazey walay pathans. Accordingly Jhajjar had several distinct mohallas or quarters: Mohalla Choudhrian, Mohalla Emadkhan, Mohalla Qaimkhan, Mohalla Lalkhan, Teebri ki Gali and the Chota and Bara Darwaza.

Inhabitants of Jhajjar , After 1947

Jhajjar Basti remained almost untouched by the British Army. Yusufzai Warriors defended their town till patrician. But when
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