Dhamtan Sahib

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Dhamtan Sahib (धमतान साहिब) is a Jat village of Nain gotra in tehsil Narwana of Jind district in Haryana. It is a well connected village by roads and rail. It is situated at a distance of 17 km from Narwana in west direction on Delhi-Firozpur rail line. It is a religious and historical place.

Demographics

The village has a population of about 10000 with 2400 families and is having about 6200 voters. Jats have a population of about 1500 families. It is mainly a village of Nain Jat gotra. Out of 52 Nain villages it is second after Danauha. 24 Nain gotra villages are around this village. Other castes dwelling in the village with number of families are Brahman (175), Harijan, Kumhar (15), Sunar (15), Nai (50), Naik (30), Bairagi (20), Badi (95) etc.

History

In 8th generation of Prithvi Raj, Raja Anandpal’s descendant Bachhal came from Bhirani in Rajasthan to Litani (Hisar) in 1387 AD and after staying one night over here made his permanent settlement at Danauda (Jind). Bina Bachhal’s one son could not make a permanent settlement here due to dominance of Muslim population, but named it as Dharmsthan. Bachhal’s second son could be successful in getting settled here permanently. So this place was named ‘dam ke tan’ or ‘Damtan’ meaning a settlement on the basis of strength. Guru Teg Bahadur had camped here when he went to meet Mughal Badsah. The then residents of this place offered him 500 acre land and a lot of money. Due to this reason the place was known as ‘Dhamtan Sahib’. There is a Gurudwara here in 900 acre of land and an ancient Shiva temple.

Bachhal had two sons name Beena and Jajjan, First Jajjan went to the Dhamtan and he could not settle himself here because of the Muslim disturbances.There is a Kund named जाजनवाला कुंड. Then His first son came here. Mr Beena overpowered the village and covered the most part of land in Dhamtan Sahib. Then Dhamtan Sahib Had 24 villages in its list that all land belonged to Beenna's. ^[1]

Reference

1. ↑ Added by member Balkar singh Nain, points for history

• Jat Samaj, Agra, August 1999

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