PALLANDRI BAWLI

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HISTORY - I

BANSI FAMILY ( Karkot Go't) - 617 to 872 AD

This family ruled Kashmir  for almost two and a half centuries. They had their capital at MANDI (East of Poonch City, Presently in occupied Kashmir). They were enemies of Kashmiri Rajas and Loharan Dynesty. Their fort at Loharkot was so strong that even Sultan Mehmood Ghazanavi couldn't capture it. 

QUOTES

 Lt. Col. J.M. Wikeley                                        ( Book: Punjabi Musalmans)

"Male population.— 25,300. (Census 1838). The Sudhanoti tehsil of Poonch is the home of the Sudhans, but they spread also into the Havali, Bagh and Kotli tehsils and a few even are to be met with across the Jhelum in the Kahuta tehsil of Rawalpindi………The Sudhans are the most important tribe of Poonch."

"The Sudhans have pride of race and look on themselves as superior to any of the other tribes of Poonch Kashmir".

 

Major G. Carmichael Smyth                             (Book: A History of the Reigning Family of Lahore)

"About the year 1832, several independent hill-tribes inhabiting the north western regions of the Punjaub  were reduced into subjection to the Lahore state. These were the Doondh, Soodhun (Sudhun), Suthee, and Murdiall tribes… The Soodhun tribe inhabited a large tract on the eastern bank of the same river opposite the country of the Doondhs, and numbered about forty thousand souls. "

SHAJRAH

A shajrah related to the Sudhan Tribe and specially ANYALs is available at 

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This is ever growing and has a lot of information like pic etc and is still growing. It also includes the living people. 

A WORD ABOUT SUDHAN TRIBE

Sudhans also known as Sudozais came to Kashmir(Poonch) though Dera Ismail Khan with their elder Nawab Jassy Khan, who is burried at Jassa Pir Hill Top looking over Mang(tehsil of Rawalakot). Sudhans after that time settled in this area and are still dwelling in almost all districts of Azad Kashmir. They are a martial race and had been part of military ever since. The current Prime Minister of Kashmir: Sardar Yaqub Khan is also from the same Tribe (SUDHAN).