Sandhawalia


Sandhawalia or Sandhanwalia is a Jat clan of present-day India and Pakistan.

History

The members of one particular Sandhanwalia family occupied important positions in the Sikh Confederacy. The progenitor of this family was Chanda Singh, who settled at the Sandhanwala village in present-day Pakistan, and consequently, came to be known as Sandhanwalia. His sons migrated to Raja Sansi.
According to some scholars Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the Sikh ruler of Punjab may have belonged to the s
Jat gotra as the Sandhanwalias. Author Preminder Singh Sandhawalia believes that Ranjit Singh shared lineage with the Sandhawalias, although he did not share a direct line of descent with them. According to other scholars, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the ruler of Punjab was from the tribe of Sansis.