Nautheh

Nautheh (Urdu: نوتہیہ‎) is a village on the name of Nautha Singh Hunjra is a union council number 32 of Tehsil Pindi Bhattian, District Hafizabad, Punjab, Pakistan. Nautheh has 5 square mile area with 5678 population. Punjabi is mother tongue of the area and Islam is religion of the people with 97 percent Sunni and nearly 3 percent Shia Muslim population.[1]

Nautha Singh and Uduo Singh are two brothers who dug two wells for water where now two villages are inhabited, Nautheh and Uduoki.[2]

Nautheh has nine sub villages areas called khoh (well) namely Jandwal Khoh, Rodu Khoh, Malwala Khoh, Saro Khoh, Jinnah colony, Nauthe Station, Chuntra, Dall wahab, Dall Jahana. Nautheh village is strategically well located area and is linked with district Hafizabad through Sukheki, Hafizabad double road and Faisalabad, Hafizabad railway with railway station in Nautheh. Nautheh is linked with provincial capital Lahore and federal capital Islamabad through Lahore-Islamabad Motorway M2 having motorway interchange of Kotsarwar only two kilometer away from the village. Nautheh also hosted motorway service area namely Sukheki that is totally rounded in Nautheh area.[3]

Govt. High School Nautheh is one of the government institute along with Govt. girls middle school and Govt. primary school Nautheh. Nautheh has majority population of Randhaira clan of Kharal caste. Rai Jalaldin Randhira (Jalalia) a nomad leader of Kharal clan from Ravi Rihan (Lahore) in 1740 AD occupied the well dug by Nautha Singh Hunjra and kicked out the families of old inhabitants. Rai Jalalia survived with four sons Rai Qaim, Rai Saro (Sarwar), Rai Aqal, Rai Humaon (Humayon) and one son in law Ghulla Malah (a pirate) from the pindi Bhattian Chenab river. Rai Jalalia left the nomad life and inhabited permanently in Nautheh which has currently five tribes on the name of his four sons and one son in law.[4]

There are two main holy shrine of Baba Haji shah sarkar and Bawa Nawab shah.[5]

References

  1. ↑ The Punjab in 1920s – A Case study of Muslims, Zarina Salamat, Royal Book Company, Karachi, 1997. table 45, pp. 136. ISBN 969-407-230-1
  2. ↑ Muslim peoples: a world ethnographic survey / Richard V. Weekes, editor-in-chief Greenwood Press
  3. ↑ History of Hafizabad.
  4. ↑ Mortimer, Edward, Faith and Power, (1982), p.158-170
  5. ↑ shrines in hafizabad.

Coordinates: 31°56′13″N 73°31′48″E / 31.937°N 73.530°E / 31.937; 73.530

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