Bahali
Behali
Union council and town
CountryPakistan
RegionKhyber-Pakhtunkhwa
DistrictMansehra District
VillagesMatehal, Rehar, Karer, Behali (Head office of Union Council), Ogra, Hussanian, Potha, Matihaal
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)
Bahali
Union Council
Country Pakistan
ProvinceKhyber-Pakhtunkhwa
Population
 (200000)
 • Total200,000

Bahali is a village and union council (an administrative subdivision) of the Mansehra District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.[1] Bahali is part of Mansehra Tehsil and is located at the boundary area of the Mansehra district and the Abbottabad district, west from the Karakurram highway at Qalanderabad. It is a valley surrounded by mountains. It is inhabited by Turki, Tanolies, Awan, Gujjar, Syeds And Galye.

Etymology

Behali is actually a distortion of the word Bahali, which means "restoration." Tradition holds that the reason the village was named Bahali was due to its successive destruction by various tribes and Sikhs and its final restoration by Karlugh Turks, descendants of the former rulers of Pakhli Sarkar. These Karlugh Turks are still one of the influential tribes in the Hazara area.

History

There are three village councils in UC Behali.

VC Behali is owned by Karluk Turks while the VC Rerh and VC Ogra both are owned by a family of Jehangiri Swatis. Khans also known as "Nawabs Of Ogra" are area ruling this are since the 1703. They own biggest land in this union council. Khan Wali Muhammad Khan Jehangiri Swati was the most powerful "Khan Of Ogra" and 11 others villages which are all now part of Behali Union council.[2] 1) VC Ogra 2) VC Behali 3) VC Rerh.

VC Behali is owned by Karluk Turks while the VC Rerh and VC Ogra both are owned by a family of Jehangiri Swatis. Khans also known as "Nawabs Of Ogra" are area ruling this are since the 1703. They own biggest land in this union council. Khan Wali Muhammad Khan Jehangiri Swati was the most powerful "Khan Of Ogra" and 11 others villages which are all now part of Behali Union council.[3]

Khan of Ogra;Khan Sahib Wali Muhammad Khan s/o Khan Saib Maulvi Muhammad Wali Khan Jehangiri Swati s/o Khan Sahib Muhmmad Ali Khan Jehangiri Swati. His grandfather father Muhmmad Ali Khan was the last Nawab of Konsh Valley overthrown by British Raj. Pic year: 1903

Rehabilitation

Raja Asalat Khan was the first person who settled in Behali in around 1795. However, the Turks were dislodged from Behali by the Sikh Empire in 1817. These Bahali Turks migrated to Kashmir and stayed with their relatives in Thangar Shawai Turkan. After Hari Singh Nalwa invited them back to resettle in Behali, they finally returned around 8 years later. Disputes developed again with the Sikh Khalsa Raj and the Behali Turks who took asylum in the Mochikot fort. Raja Asalat passed his last days in Richhbehn. He is buried in Sohlan Bala near Kot-reen graveyard. Raja Paras Khan, with the help of his brother Raja Maazullah Khan, established control over the jageer on strong footing and started residing permanently in Behali. Rule by the Sarkar-i Khalsa was resented by the Behali Turkic elders, who then colluded with the British East India Company to subvert the Sikh leadership, which was then replaced by a British administration until independence.

Besides Turks, some other tribes also reside in Behali such as Gujjar, Tanolis, Syed, Swati, and Awan. Previously, Raja Masood ur Reman (Turk) was UC Nazim and now the position is held by Muhammad Afsar Niazi (Tanoli). After devolution, the first Nazim was Ghulam Mustafa (Gujjar).

People are highly educated and the majority of them prefer government jobs and there is a sizable a number of high ranking officers in judiciary, police, civil service, air-force, army, navy, education, health, and forest, etc. The literacy rate is quite high among the male population and now also increasing among female day by day. The primary school in Behali was first established in 1872. Now there is a network of public and private sector schools in UC Behali. The crime rate is almost negligible, as residents are generally peaceful and non-violent barring a few isolated incidents.

References

  1. ↑ Tehsils & Unions in the District of Mansehra - Government of Pakistan Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Wace, E. G. (1876). "Land revenue and settlement report by British Government of India".
  3. ↑ Wace, E. G. (1876). "Land revenue and settlement report by British Government of India".

See also

  • Imperial Gazetteer of India, volume
  • Behali Ki Tareekh by Raja Khursheed
  • Ain-e-Akbari
  • Tareekh e Farishta
  • Land Revenue Record

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