The Ghanial Chibs (گھنیال, also spelt Ghaniyal) are the got, or sub-clan, of the Chib Rajputs descended from Raja Ghanni Khan, a Mughal-era raja of Bhimber and grandson of Baba Shadi Shaheed. Their largest cluster of villages lies in Tehsil Kharian of Gujrat District, in Pakistan’s Punjab, just across the border from Bhimber in Azad Kashmir, and the 1997 Chib history of Raja Muhammad Iftikhar Ali Khan lists their families village by village, from Lathori and Shaikhpur to Jaipur.
At a glance
- Got (sub-clan)
- Ghanial, one of the fourteen Chib gots listed by H. A. Rose in 1911
- Ancestor
- Raja Ghanni Khan (Ghani Khan, also called Daulat Khan), son of Raja Bhoom Khan and grandson of Raja Shadab Khan, Baba Shadi Shaheed
- Founding branches
- The four sons of Ghanni Khan’s Hindu rani: Malu, Dolu (Anbu), Sanbhu and Jabbu. His Muslim rani’s son, Jamshed Khan, continued the ruling line of Bhimber
- Kharian villages
- Mithana Chak, Bhandgran, Shaikhpur, Lathori, Sari’ah, Nandwal, Sangla, Sarsal, Khair Ghansar, Khair Kattu and Jaipur (Tehsil Kharian, District Gujrat)
- Other Ghanial villages
- Kot Chibban and Mughlora near Bhimber; the Ghanial Wand of Chowki in the Samahni valley
- Standing
- Rose recorded that the Ghanial ranked highest among the Chib gots, as former holders of the Bhimber throne
- Known for
- Generations of soldiers, from British Indian Army officers to brigadiers of the Pakistan Army
- Main source
- Iftikhar Ali Khan (1997), pp. 27, 120–121, 336–346, 398
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Sources
- Raja Muhammad Iftikhar Ali Khan, Raja Shadab Khan alias Hazrat Baba Shadi Shaheed (Urdu, Barhang/Karachi, 1997), pp. 26–28, 45, 67, 74, 120–121, 156, 271, 335–347, 352, 365–366, 389–390, 395, 398.
- H. A. Rose, A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province, vol. II (1911), entry on the Chibs, as translated in the book, pp. 25–28.
- Sir Lepel Griffin and C. F. Massy, The Chiefs of the Punjab, entry on the Chibs of Pothi, as reproduced in the book, p. 156.
- Mian Onkar Singh Chib, Tarikh-e-Chibhal (2nd ed., Delhi, 1984), pp. 34–39, as quoted in the book, pp. 65–67.
This article is part of our series based on the 1997 Chib history; see the book, chapter by chapter. Spellings of names follow the book.
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