Dhanial

Dhanyal (Urdu: دھنیال‎ or Dhanial) is one of the biggest Rajput tribe living in Potohar level and Lower Himalayas throughout the previous several centuries.

A large portion of the Dhanyals are settled in the urban communities of Rawalpindi, Islamabad and in Kotli Sattian and Murree Hills. Some different parts of the tribe live nowadays in Kashmir, Abbottabad,

Hanfiyya

Hasan

Qasim

Muhammad

Muawiya

History:

n book Rajput Gotain (in urdu literature) written by Muhammad Afzal Amratsari quoted that Dhanial or Dhanyal are descendent of Dhanpal who was Bhatti Rajput. This tribe is carrying its title name from its original root of Rajput Clan of Chandravanshi. Renowned history writers like Raja Arif Minhas, Chaudhry Muhammad Ali Khan Revenue Officer, book History of Rajput by Raja Anwar Janjua, Khadim Hussain, Khadim Hussain Khadim, and Maolana Noor Muhammad Khan all have recognized Dhanyal or Dhanial as Rajput. In Census 1881, 1901 and 1931 this tribe was counted as Rajput clan of Chandravanshi.

Dhanyals are renowned for their valiance. Individuals from this tribe were enlisted into the armies of the Mughal Empire, British Empireand after Independence, into the Pakistan Army. After independence, the Dhanyals in metropolitan regions have gone to different fields like training, medication, designing, business and sociologies.

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See also

• Tribes and clans of the Pothohar Plateau
• Rajput
• Kshatriya

Further reading

• Khalid Walayat Dhanyal 2009, May 14, M.S. Asimov, Vadim Mikhaĭlovich Masson, Ahmad Hasan Dani, Unesco, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Muḣammad Osimī, János Harmatta, Boris.
• Abramovich Litvinovskiĭ (1992). Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Muḣammad Osimī. ed. History of Civilizations of Central Asia. 4. Paris.
• Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1999. pp. 485. ISBN 8120815955, 9788120815957.