Bahali is a
village
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and
union council (an administrative subdivision) of the
Mansehra District
Mansehra District is a district in Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.
It was established as a district in 1976, prior to which it was a tehsil within the former Hazara District. Two former subdivisions of Mansehra were ...
in
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the northwestern region of the country, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ...
province of
Pakistan
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.
Tehsils & Unions in the District of Mansehra - Government of Pakistan
Bahali is part of Mansehra Tehsil
Mansehra Tehsil is a tehsil in Mansehra District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
History
During British Rule, Mansehra was a tehsil of Hazara District, with larger boundaries than today, as described by the Imperial Gazetteer of India.
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and is located at the boundary area of the Mansehra district
Mansehra District is a district in Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.
It was established as a district in 1976, prior to which it was a tehsil within the former Hazara District. Two former subdivisions of Mansehra were ...
and the Abbottabad district
Abbottabad District () is a district of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is part of Hazara Division and covers an area of 1,969 km2, with the city of Abbottabad being the principal town. Neighbouring districts are Mansehra ...
, 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
After the fall and disintegration of the Turkic Pakhli Sarkar, the Turks continued to hold sway in certain areas between Sherwan and Mangal
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*Mangal Bagh (born 1973), Pakistani militant leader
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till the arrival of the Sikhs in 1817-18. They were deprived of further areas during the 1872 settlement. Under the settlement, they continued to possess about 30,000 kanals, equivalent to 7,500 acres (30 km2) of lands between RichhBehn Abbottabad
Abbottabad (; Urdu, Punjabi language(HINDKO dialect) آباد, translit=aibṭabād, ) is the capital city of Abbottabad District in the Hazara region of eastern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is the 40th largest city in Pakistan and fourth ...
and Bahali Mansehra
Mansehra is a city in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan and the headquarters of Mansehra District. It is the 71st largest city of Pakistan and 7th largest city in the province.
The name of the city (written in Hindko, Urdu and Gojr ...
. The Turks constructed a fort between Kakot and Shahkot, called the Mochikot fort. This fort proved to be a very strong place of resistance for Turks because of its hilltop location surrounded by Mangal river from three sides.
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
The Sikh Empire was a state originating in the Indian subcontinent, formed under the leadership of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, who established an empire based in the Punjab. The empire existed from 1799, when Maharaja Ranjit Singh captured Lahore ...
in 1817. These Bahali Turks migrated to Kashmir and stayed with their relatives in Thangar Shawai Turkan. After Hari Singh Nalwa
Hari Singh Nalwa (1791–1837) was Commander-in-chief of the Sikh Khalsa Fauj, the army of the Sikh Empire. He is known for his role in the conquests of Kasur, Sialkot, Attock, Multan, Kashmir, Peshawar and Jamrud. Hari Singh Nalwa was ...
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
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...
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
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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Union councils of Mansehra District
Populated places in Mansehra District