Marhal

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The Mahal, are sometime pronounced Mandal, are a Jat gotra, found mainly in Punjab, although few are still found in Jarauda in Muzaffarnagar District of Uttar Pradesh. They are one of the larger Muley Jat arain clans.

The Family of the Nawabs of Karnal

The most prominent Mahal family was that of the Nawabs of Karnal. They first appear in history in 1780 A,D, when the family was residing at Samana, Nawab Majid-ul-daula granted to Nawab Sher-ul-din Khan, their ancestor, the parganas of Muzaffarnagar, Shoran and Chitrawal in the Muzaffarnagar District on condition that he furnished for Government service 200 horsemen fully equipped ; on the death of the grantee in 1789 the grant was continued on the same terms to his brother Mahomdi Khan by Daulat Scindia.[1]

References

  1. ↑ The annals of Karnal (1914) by Cecil Henry Buck
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