Ghorewaha

Ghorewahas (or Gorewaha) are Kachwaha Rajputs. Raja Man , sixth in descent from Kush, son of Lord Ram), had two sons, Kachwaha and Hawaha of the lineage of Hawaha (161). They lived in Hosiarpur and Jalandher before partition, but as quite a lot of them followed Islam, most had to migrate to Pakistan after partition. The famous chief justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, belongs to this clan. They use Rana as their family title.

History

The Ghorewahas live in the southeast Nawanshahr Tahsil, as well as in the adjoining Garhshanker Tahsil of Hoshiarpur, but they also hold estates in eastern Phillaur Tahsil. The Grand Trunk Road between Phagwara and Phillaur is the boundary between them and the Manj Rajputs. They run various communities in this area.The Nawanshahr and Phillaur Ghorewahas give similar accounts of their arrival in this country. In Sambat 1130 or 1131 two brothers, Ahwaha or Hawaha and Kachwaha, sons of Raja Man, came from Kot Kurman or Kurwan on a pilgrimage to Jawala Mukhi. Near Arak, a place in Ludhiana, close to Rupar, they met Shababudin Ghori, who was then the ruling monarch. They presented a fine horse to the king, who gave each as much country as he could ride round in a day. Hawaha joined Sutlej, and Kachwaha the other side, and at night fall the former threw down his spear, at what is now the village of Selkiana, to show the limit of his domain while the latter marked the spot where he had arrived at by his bracelet, on the site of the present village of Kangananwal. Kachwaha returned to Udaipur, but Hawaha remained and held both territories.

Successors of Hawaha

According to Suleman Khan of Rahon, the successors of Raja Hawaha have been rajas for for 13 generations. Raja Bin was the father of Rana Rajpal and Bhinsi. The Ghorewahas of Rahon and Shekhomazara and those of Saroha Simil, Mukandpur and Gag in the Garhshankar Tahsil and of Bairsian , Kunail are descended from Rana Rajpal, son of Raja Bhin.

Till Indian independence in 1947 the Rana of Rahon and the Rajrana of Jadla controlled most of the estates, while the Muslim Rana of Rahon fled to Pakistan after Partition; the successors of the then Raja Rana Labh Singh of the Zamindari of Jadla-Ghorewah remain in Punjab, the zamindari was brought down to 11 villages in the 1950's and abolished in 1956 while the title was handed down to his successor Rana Jagdish Singh .*

Controversy

It is suggested that the Ghorewahs are not Kachwahas as Kot Kurman which is often identified with Udaipur is not where the Kachwahas are found. The Kachwahas are found in Jaipur and the Sisodias are found in Udaipur.

Also See

*Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry

References

Jullandur gazzete 1904

http://www.namdar.net/Ghorewaha.htm

* Dainik Bhaskar, Chandigarh edition 14 november, 2004