Layyah

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Layyah (Urdu: لیہ) is a city located in Layyah District, Punjab, Pakistan. It used to have sizeable Hindu population before India's partition that migrated to Panipat, state of Haryana in India.

[edit] The Khawaja Shaikh of Layyah, in the census

The first census of the Punjab was conducted by Ibbetson and MacLagan in 1883 and 1892.

According to their reports, the Khawajas of Layyah were converted from Khatris from the Punjab and belonged to the following Khatri sections:

Kapur, Puri, Tandan and Gambhir

ref>Ibbetson, Denzil; Edward MacLagan and H.A. Rose. A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province, vol. II, 1911, pp. 537-538.</ref>


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