Naul clan

This article is about the Pakistani tribe. For the Irish village, see Naul, Dublin.

The Naul is a Jatt tribe mostly native to Rajasthan, India, and Punjab, Pakistan. In India and Sindh, Naul is pronounced as Naul which is a Hindi synonym.

See also

• Jat Muslim

The Naul are a tribe of Jat status, Like the Langrials, discussed earlier there are traditions that Naul are of Brahman descent. Naul, there ancestor was a Brahman of Bikaner, who migrated to the Neeli Bar, adopted Islam, and married into a Jat family. Other traditions however refer to Naul being a Rajput, the elder son of Raja Dhaan, the Rajput ruler of Bikaner in Rajasthan. He is said to have accepted at the hands of Baba Farid, the Sufi saint now buried at Pakpattan, a city located in the Neeli Bar. After their conversion to Islam, the Naul occupied lowlands of the Chenab round Jhang before the Sials. With the arrival of the Sials, said to be around the 15th Century, the Naul were pushed deeper in the Bar. For a short period after the arrival of the Sial, the Sials were subject to the Nauls and paid tribute. However, with the support of the Lodhi Sultans of Delhi, they ended Naul rule. As pastoral nomads, the Naul migrated through a wide portion of the Sandal Bar and Vichanh areas in the Chaj Doab. With rise of Sikh power, the Naul independence finally came to an end, and with the rise of the British, most of the Naul area was subject to large scale colonization,

There are still more than three hundred settlements ain the low areas of Rivers Satluj in Kasur and along the Chenab in District Jhang. Most of the tribe are settled in districts of Kasur, Sahiwal, Okara, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib. Important Naul settlements include Haveli Lakha in Okara, and Moza Kot Sai Singh , Pake Wala , Moza Habib ,Chak 227 JB, Chak 230 JB, and Chak 232 JB in Jhang District.

References

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