Kalali is a village and administrative unit with a democratically elected

panchayat samiti Panchayat samiti or block panchayat is a rural local government ( panchayat) body at the intermediate tehsil (taluka/mandal) or block level in India. It works for the villages of the tehsil that together are called a development block. It has b ...

(local council) in the

Loharu (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Loharu Assembly constituency is one of the 90 Vidhan Sabha constituencies in Haryana state in northern India. Overview Loharu (constituency number 54) is one of the 6 Assembly constituencies located in Bhiwani district. This constituency cove ...

Siwani Siwani is a town and a municipality located approx. 58 km from Bhiwani city in Bhiwani district in the north Indian States and territories of India, state of Haryana. It is the administrative headquarters of Siwani tehsil. Demographics As ...

Tehsil of

Bhiwani District Bhiwani district is one of the 22 Districts of Haryana, districts of the northern Indian state of Haryana. Created on 22 December 1972, it was the largest district of the state by area, before the creation of Charkhi Dadri district, Charkhi Dadr ...

under Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha constituency and

Hisar Division Hisar Division is one of the six divisions of Haryana State of India. The division comprises the districts of Fatehabad, Hisar, Jind and Sirsa .Haryana Haryana () is a States and union territories of India, state located in the northern part of India. It was carved out after the linguistic reorganisation of Punjab, India, Punjab on 1 November 1966. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with les ...

state. It is situated from

Hisar Hissar () means fort or castle in Arabic, with variants adopted into Persian (hesar, hessar) and Turkish (hisar). Hissar, Hisar and Hesar may refer to: Places Asia (South and Central) India *Hisar (city), a city in Haryana **Hisar Airport in Hi ...

on the Hisar-Rajgarh road and from the district headquarters

Bhiwani Bhiwani is a city and a municipal council in Bhiwani district in the state of Haryana. Besides being a seat of spiritual learning, the city is at the centre of regional politics and hometown of three former Haryana chief ministers: Bansi Lal ...

History

Kalali came into existence even before its twin village Bidhwan.

Bidhwan Jaglan Zail and Jaglan Lambardari

Bidhwan is seat of the former Jaglan Zail that was headed by the

Zaildar Zaildar was an officer in charge of a Zail which was an administrative unit of group of villages during the Sikh Empire, British Indian Empire in Punjab and Dogra dynasty rule in Jammu and Kashmir (princely state). The Settlement Officer, with ...

from influential Jaglan clan who during the

British Raj The British Raj ( ; from Hindustani language, Hindustani , 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the colonial rule of the British The Crown, Crown on the Indian subcontinent, * * lasting from 1858 to 1947. * * It is also called Crown rule ...

ruled over four revenue villages of Princely state called

Loharu State Loharu State was one of the princely states of India during the period of the British Raj. It was part of the Punjab States Agency and was a nine-gun salute state. Loharu State encompassed an area of , and was situated in the south-east corner ...

. Descendants of whom still live in the village and their descendant Surender Singh Jaglan still holds the position of

Lambardar Numbardar or Lambardar (, , , ) was the village headman responsible for tax collection in the village during the British Raj. They were appointed under the Mahalwari system. Etymology The compound word ''numberdar'' is composed of the English wo ...

of these villages. Currently, these four villages of

Bidhwan Bidhwan is a village and administrative unit with a democratically elected panchayat samiti (local council) in the Loharu (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Siwani Tehsil of Bhiwani district, Bhiwani District under Bhiwani-Mahendragarh (Lok Sabha cons ...

(बिधवाण), Kalali (कलाली),

Mandholi Khurd Mandholi Khurd, next to Mandholi Kalan, is a village and administrative unit with a democratically elected panchayat samiti (local council) in Loharu (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Siwani Tehsil of Bhiwani District under Bhiwani-Mahendragarh ...

(मंढोली खुर्द) and

Mandholi Kalan Mandholi Kalan, next to Mandholi Khurd, Rambass (part of Mandholi Kalan) situated 5 km from Mandholi Gopalwas, Kasni Kalan and Isharwal, is a village and administrative unit with a democratically elected panchayat samiti (local council) in th ...

(मंढोलीकलां) lie in

Bhiwani district Bhiwani district is one of the 22 Districts of Haryana, districts of the northern Indian state of Haryana. Created on 22 December 1972, it was the largest district of the state by area, before the creation of Charkhi Dadri district, Charkhi Dadr ...

. Khunga or Jaglan gotra Jats and Kaaushik gotra Brahmins were original inhabitants of Kalali village.

Nearby archaeological sites

Nearby

Indus Valley civilization The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Indus Civilisation, was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE ...

archaeological sites are

Banawali Banawali is an archaeological site belonging to the Indus Valley Civilization period in Fatehabad district, Haryana, India and is located about 120 km northeast of Kalibangan and 16 km from Fatehabad. Banawali, which is earlier call ...

Lohari Ragho Lohari Ragho is a village and Indus Valley civilization archaeological site, located in Hisar district of the Haryana state in India. It has 3 separate mounds, each 1 to 1.5 km apart within the peripheral suburban zone of Rakhigarhi city cite ...

Masudpur Masudpur is a village and Indus Valley civilization (4700 BCE to 1400 BCE) archaeological site in the Hisar district in Haryana state in India. Indus Valley Civilization Site ''Masudpur'' is an early Harappan (4600 BCE - 2800 BCE), mature ...

Rakhigarhi Rakhigarhi or Rakhi Garhi is a village and an archaeological site in the Hisar District of the northern Indian state of Haryana, situated about 150 km northwest of Delhi. It is located in the Ghaggar River plain, some 27 km from the ...

Siswal Siswal is a village in Hisar district, Haryana, India. It located 28 km from Hisar city. It is a site of Chalcolithic age. It is a typesite for ''Siswal culture'', dating from around 3800 BC, also known as Sothi–Siswal culture. Locat ...

all with Hissar district as well as Burj and

Bhirrana Bhirrana, also Bhirdana and Birhana, ( IAST: Bhirḍāna) is an archaeological site, located in a small village in the Fatehabad district of the north Indian state of Haryana. Bhirrana's earliest archaeological layers contained two charcoal sam ...

and Kunal and Balu in Fatehabad and

Mitathal Mitathal is a village and Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) Archaeological sites in the Bhiwani tehsil of the Bhiwani district in the Indian state of Haryana. Part of Hisar division, it lies north of the district headquarters Bhiwani and from t ...

and Naurangabad in Bhiwani district. Another archaeological site is

Agroha Mound Agroha, locally known as ''Ther'', is an archaeological site located in Agroha, in the Hisar district of India. Location The mounds are located about 1.5 km from the town of Agroha, 20 km from Hisar city and 190 km from Ne ...

Administration

Currently, it is under Bhiwani Zilla Panchayat and has its own unreserved Gram Panchayat under Gram Panchayat Smiti. There is a

Patwari A village accountant or karanam (Andhra Pradesh), patwari (Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Telangana, West Bengal), patowary (Assam), talati (Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra), lekhpal (Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand) is a government role in rural areas of t ...

(government land record officer), an ADO (Agriculture Development Officer),a Rural Health Officer (RHO), and an Anganbadi Worker. The village is inhabited by people belonging to different castes. The dominant caste in the village is Jat where Jaglan (Khunga) is dominant gotra.

Brahman & Jat gotras

The following

Brahmin Brahmin (; ) is a ''Varna (Hinduism), varna'' (theoretical social classes) within Hindu society. The other three varnas are the ''Kshatriya'' (rulers and warriors), ''Vaishya'' (traders, merchants, and farmers), and ''Shudra'' (labourers). Th ...

Jat The Jat people (, ), also spelt Jaat and Jatt, are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, many Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in l ...

gotra In Hindu culture, the term gotra (Sanskrit: गोत्र) is considered to be equivalent to lineage. It broadly refers to people who are descendants in an unbroken male line from a common male ancestor or patriline. Generally, the gotr ...

s are found in the village: * Kankar * Jaglan Jaglan gotra dominates the Jat community in the village

Transportation

It is well connected by the paved bitumen road. It lies from 9 km

Jhumpa Khurd Jhumpa, composed of twin villages of Jhumpa Kalan and Jhumpa Khurd, are in the Loharu (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Siwani Tehsil of the Bhiwani District in the Indian state of Haryana. Close to the border with Rajasthan state, the census code is ...

, 18 km Bahal, 21 km

, 29

Rajgarh (Rajasthan) Sadulpur, natively known as Rajgarh is a city, municipality, tehsil and Legislative Assembly seat in Churu district of northern part of Rajasthan state in India. It was the territory of the Gaur dynasty later after defeated in war with Sh ...

, 33 Kairu, 55 km Hissar, 57 km

Hansi Hansi, is a city and municipal council in Hisar district in the Indian state of Haryana. It appears that at one time Hansi was larger, more prosperous and more important than Hisar. The town has several important buildings of archeological impor ...

, 49 km

Pilani Pilani is a town located in the Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, India. The town is well known as the location of BITS Pilani. Demographics , Pilani has a population of 29,741 of which 51% are males and 49% females. The average literacy rate is ...

, 50 km from

, 163 km

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, but spread chiefly to the west, or beyond its Bank (geography ...

and 282 km from state capital

Chandigarh Chandigarh is a city and union territory in northern India, serving as the shared capital of the states of Punjab and Haryana. Situated near the foothills of the Shivalik range of Himalayas, it borders Haryana to the east and Punjab in the ...

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Train connectivity

Nearest train stations are 9 km

, 18 km Bahal, 21 km

, 29 Rajgarh. Nearest major junctions are at

Hisar, India Hisar also known as Hissar is the administrative headquarters of Hisar district in the state of Haryana in northwestern India. It is located to the west of New Delhi, India's capital, and has been identified as a counter-magnet city for the ...

city and 52 km at

city.

Airport connectivity

Hisar Airport Maharaja Agrasen International Airport Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, but spread chiefly to the west, or beyond its Bank (geography ...