Nehar kalan (or Nehar kalan) is a village in Zafarwal Tehsil, Narowal District of Punjab, Pakistan.[1] It is in the Basantar River Valley, west of the river on the Darmaan-Shakargarh Road from Shakargarh to Zafarwal.[2] Lohara is just south of Indian-administered Kashmir, one kilometre east of the village of Hamral, and 3.5 km west of the village of Nahr. The people speak the Kangri language which is either a dialect of Punjabi or a dialect of Western Pahari, depending upon one's political persuasion.[3][4]
History
editThe area around Lohara was incorporated within the Durrani Empire about 1747. It was briefly part of the Maratha Empire from 1758 to 1761, when it was retaken by the Durrani.[5] In 1798, it was transferred to Ranjit Singh of Kashmir, along with what was to become the Narowal District and other lands, by Zaman Shah Durrani as a gift after Singh had defeated Durrani's army and conquered the area. In 1821, Ranjit Singh gave administration of the Shakargarh area to Amir Singh Sandhanwalia as a jagir. When the British took over Punjab in 1848, the area was included into Gurdaspur District. In 1947, under the Radcliffe Award after the partition of India, the area was transferred to Pakistan and attached to Sialkot District. It was transferred as part of Narowal tehsil into the new Narowal District in 1991. Zafarwal tehsil was created in 2009.[6] Lohara is Union council from 2016 local body election.
Notes
edit- ^ Lohāra (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- ^ Pathankot, India, 1501A, NI43-15, India, Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan (topographic map 1:250000), Joint Operations Graphic (Air), Defense Mapping Agency, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, United States Air Force, December 1956
- ^ Speakers of Dogri and Kangri have now started seeking an independent identity for these two major Punjabi dialects. Singh, Amitjit (1997). "The Language Divide in Punjab". South Asia Graduate Research Journal. 4 (1). Archived from the original on 1 December 2001., page down for article.
- ^ Patyal, Hukam Chand (1995). "Archaic words in some western Pahari dialects: A historical perspective". Indian Linguistics. 56: 129–134.
- ^ See Chapter VI of The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan Archived 2011-07-10 at the Wayback Machine by H. G. Keene.
- ^ "Zafarwal to become tehsil on July 1". Dawn. 2 February 2009. Retrieved May 25, 2010.