Patti Kala Mehraj

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Patti Kala Mehraj (Maharaj,Mehraj) is a village in Rampura Phul tahsil of Bhatinda district in Punjab, India.

Location

It is situated 8km away from sub-district headquarters Rampura Phul (tehsildar office) and 30km away from district headquarters Bathinda.

Jat Gotras

Sidhu

History

Lepel H. Griffin[1] writes that founder of Barar clan Rao Barar had two sons, Rao Paur and Rao Dhul, the younger of whom is the ancestor of the Raja of Faridkot, and of the Barar tribe, which holds almost the whole of the districts of Mari, Mudki and Muktsar, Buchan, Mehraj, Sultan Khan and Bhadour in the Firozpur district, the whole of Faridkot, and many villages in Pattiala, Nabha, Jhumba and Malod.

The two brothers quarreled, and the elder, Rao Paur, being worsted, fell into great poverty, in which his family remained for several generations, till Rao Sanghar restored their fortunes. When the Emperor Babar invaded India in 1524, Rao Sanghar waited on him at Lahore and entered his army with a few followers ; but soon afterwards he was killed at the battle of Panipat, on the 21st April 1526, when Babar defeated Ibrahim Lodi, with great slaughter, and gained the Empire of Dehli. This victory did not, however, lead him to forget the services of Rao Sanghar, to whose son Bariam, he gave the Chaudhriyat* of the waste country


* A Chaudhri was, in the tine of the Empire, the head-man in a certain District, for the revenue collection of which he was responsible, receiving a percentage on the collections. His office was termed “Chaudhariyat."


[p.5]: to the south-west of Dehli, which office was confirmed to him by Humayun, the son and successor of Babar, in 1554. The name of Bariam is the only one by which this chief is historically known, but it was not his original name, and was given him by the Emperor in honor of his bravery, and signifies brave, Bahadur. He lived for the most part at Neli, the village of Sidhu's maternal relations, and also re-built Bhidowal, which had become deserted. He was killed about the year 1560, fighting with the Bhattis, and with him fell his grandson Suttoh.

He left two sons, Rao Mehraj, (commonly known as Rao Maharaj) who succeeded to the Chaudhriyat, and Garaj, whose descendants people five villages in the Firozpur district. The only son of Rao Mehraj had been killed in his father’s lifetime, and Pukko, the grandson, succeeded, but he was soon after killed in a skirmish with the Bhattis at Bhidowal.

He had two brothers, Lukho and Chaho ; the descendants of the first live in Jakepal ; and of the second at the village of Chaho, some eight miles distant from Bhadour in the Ludhiana district.

His sons were Habbal and Mohan, the latter of whom was confirmed as Chaudhri ; but he fell into arrears with the Government, and finding himself unable to pay what was due, and also being much harassed by his hereditary foes the Bhattis, he fled to Hansi and Hissar, where his relations were numerous, and, collecting a considerable force, returned home and defeated the Bhattis near Bhidowal. By the advice of Guru Har Govind, the sixth of the Sikh prophets, he founded the village of Mehraj or Maharaj, naming it after his great-grandfather.

Population

At the time of Census-2011, the population of Patti Kala Mehraj village stood at 3636, with 672 households.

Notable persons

  • Col. T. S. Sidhu - Gurpratap Singh Sidhu has provided this information. His ancestral village is Mehraj. My father, Lt. Col. T. S. Sidhu is an Ex-Armd Corps Veteran (45 Calvary Regiment) having lead the Indian Army offensive against Pakistan at the Battle of Garibpur 1971 resulting in the subsequent liberation of Bangladesh. My father being the youngest officer was leading his battery of tanks against the Pakistani 'Peepa's'. You would be pleased to know that a motion picture named 'Peepa' is under way production depicting the same Battle of Garibpur with Ishaan Khattar as the protagonist. They actors would be playing the part of Brig. Balram Mehta & his colleague, i.e. my beloved Father, Col. Sidhu. Though it's anyone's guess how true to the facts do the motion picture production team stays. My father was gravely injured in the offensive having an enemy AP (Armour Piercing) shell hitting his tank blasting through Dad's gunner's chest and landing between my father's legs. He had to climb out of the utterly damaged tank and crawl using just his elbows before he was luckily picked up by one of the front line army ambulances. Dad's legs still have multiple lead pellets embedded within them since the AP shell hit him. They too have become a part of the legend that he is. (Source:Gurpratap Singh Sidhu, S/O Lt. Col. Tejinder Singh Sidhu, 45 Cavalry Regiment - 42 Armd Regiment, PT-76 Tanks, Email:<bunnysidhu@yahoo.com>)

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