Purewal

Purewal (pronounced Pur-ey-waal) is clan of Jatts found mainly in the state of Punjab in India.

The villages of origin of the Purewal clan are Shankar where they can be traced to three Purewal brothers during the Guru Gobind era (circa 1700AD), Ajit Singh Garhi, Hakim Pur and Kalahwalfatu in the Doaba of Punjab.

The three Purewal brothers were very religious men. It is reported that they helped people in need, and donated money yearly to the gurdwara. The brothers were also athletes. They promoted wrestling in Shankar, with wrestling matches taking place yearly, to this day.

Ajit Singh Garhi also formed his own village in the Nawanshahr region. It is next to Aur. A very popular wrestling event through the Doaba region called Shenj takes place in this village each yr in September.

Hakim Pur is a village in tehsil Banga, twenty-two kilometres from the city of Phagwara within the Doaba of Punjab in India. This village is in the Nawanshahr District, close to the boundary of Jalandhar district. The closest towns are Mukandpur and Apra. Purewal and Sihra families are amongst the traditional residents of this village.Some Purewal families were also traced to Sialkot now in Pakistan as well as one in North America.

Porawal (Purewal): As regarding this name the following tale is told:- A Mirasi happened to meet some children of the Maan, Bhullar and Heer Tribes pasturing cattle. Those of the two former tribes were in charge of boys, those of the latter in charge of girls, and so he asked them which of their tribes was the chief. The boys answered ironically that the Porawal (Purewal), who had sent their cattle out in charge of girls, were chief. Owing to their custom of so doing the Heer Jatt were only regarded as half a tribe and the other half is Purewal. That is why some Jatt Historian in their books has written this clan together as ‘Heer or Purewal’.

Purewal is a gotra or clan of Jatt Sikh found mainly in the state of Punjab in India. Sardar Swaran Singh (a Purewal Jatt served as Foreign and Defense Minister of India)

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