Nakodar (pronounced Nuh-Koh-Durh) is a city and a municipal council in
Jalandhar district in the
Indian state of
Punjab. The city is almost 424 km from
Delhi , 24 km from
Jalandhar and about 114 from
Amritsar . Surrounding
villages include
Mehatpur ,
Nawan Pind Jattan ,
Bir Pind ,
Shankar, Nur- Pur- Chatha and Sarih.
The Town is of
considerable antiquity and had been held in succession by three,(3) different races , the Kambohs (Kamboj) , the
Khanzadahs and then by the muslim Rajputs , traces of whom still exist in the extensive ruins by which the town is
surrounded.
The town was anciently founded by the
Hindu Kamboh , according to
Sir William Wilson Hunter and
others. The Kamboh settlements lay to the west of present town and the sites are still marked by extensive ruins,
and two old fine tombs, now called the
Black and Red Domes, from the color of the material.
Tradition attributes
the Kamboh expulsion to the Nawab
Kutb Khan who came with an army from Indor near Nuh in 1570
AD. As a
consequence, the lordship of the town thus passed over to the Khanzadaas from the Kamboj tribe.
Within two generations, the Rajputs got the town in jagir from
Emperor Jahangir, in later sixteenth century, apparently divesting the Khanzadahs, the successor race to the Kambohs. The Rajputs were themselves later ousted during Sikh period by one
Sardar Tara Singh Ghaiba who made a fort and made himself the master of the surroundings. From Ghaiba, the town was seized by
Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1816. The town is well pave and has thriving appearances and currently forms a Tehsil of
District Jalandhar.
Outside the town, there are two large and handsome tombs dating at least from the times of Emperor Jahangir, later one of them is said to be the burial place of the adviser of
Emperor Shah Jahan, but it is known who stand buried in the earlier tomb. Nakodar is the homeland of many popular
Punjabi bhangra singers like
SAI HANS RAJ HANS (
Chief Darvesh of
LAL BADSHAH DARBAR NAKODAR).
Nakodar kol painde es darbaar baare jinna kahaan unna ghatt
.... ishk di taakat es darbaar te vekhan nu mildi e .... Saai Muraad
Shah ji ne sache ishk da boota ese jagah layea ....
us ton baad es gaddi de agle daavedaar bane san Janaab-e-ali
Gurdas Mann saahib, par ohna ne daas rehna hi manzoor kita te es gaddi uppar Sai
Ghulam Ali Ji baithe jinha da dooja naam
Laadi Shah v e ....
Main suneya c k ishk de maareyan nu jeen di raah mil jaandi othe .... te othe ja k jindagi jeen da raah mainu v pta laggeya .... har insaan layi alagg e jindagi ....
jis din ton main us jagah sees nivayea, jindagi badal jihi gayi e .... jubaan de alfaaz badal gaye ....
gaunde vele aisa rang banneya jaanda os jagah te k saari rooh ishk de nashe vich nasheya jaandi e ....
khuda is ishk di gaddi nu ese taraan salaamat rakhe te har aashik nu takdeer bakhshe ethe ikk vaar sir jhukaun di .... aameen
- published: 24 Aug 2011
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