Bhera


Bhera is a city and tehsil of Sargodha District, Punjab province of Pakistan.

History

According to Ancient Geography of India by Alexander Cunningham, Bhera was once known as Jobnathnagar.
The Imperial Gazetteer of India records the history of Bhera:
In the recent past centuries, Bhera was an important trading outpost on the road to Kabul, and boasted of a taksal during the rule of Ranjit Singh. The city was known for its knife and cutlery craftsmen, who made fighting daggers as well as hunting knives and table cutlery, often fitted with handles of serpentine or horn. Sir Robert Baden-Powell described the process by which craftsmen manufactured gem-quality serpentine aka false jade from ores obtained from Afghanistan: "The sang-i-yesham is cut by means of an iron saw, and water mixed with red sand and pounded kurand. It is polished by application to the san, wetted with water only, then by being kept wet with water, and rubbed with a piece of wati, and lastly by rubbing very finely pounded burnt sang-i-yesham on it. This last process must be done very thoroughly."

Attacks on Bhera through history

Bhera has also been attacked by a series of invaders, including:
Farishta records
that after attacking Ajoodhun, now Pakpattan:

Notable people