Kamalia was a town in the
district and tehsil of Montgomery, Punjab, 27 miles west of
Montgomery town, and 14 miles from Chichawatni station on the
North-Western Railway. In the reign of Abraheem Lodhi, Khan Kamal
Khan Kharal, aristocrat of area Fateh Noor along with his family
left home for Dehli and he met in the Jungle Nawab Rai Hamand of
Hindal Nagri who was also Kharal. Being commoner, they drew near
each other and Khan Kamal Khan Kharal stayed there for some time.
Meanwhile, Khan Kamal Khan presented a sheet of cloth to Hazrat Shah
Husain and he predicted the happy news of Ravi Desh for him which
came true. Abraheem Lodhi dethroned Hamand because of his being in
old age and appointed Khan Kamal Khan Kharal the ruler of Hindal
Nagri. In 1526 Abraheem Lodhi was killed by Zaheer-ud-Din Babar.
These days, Khan Kamal Khan Kharal was also killed by the sons of
Rai Hamand. Then, a year later, the son of Khan Kamal Khan took
revenge of his father’s murder. Then he, in place of deserted Nagri
of Raja Sarcup, founded a settlement Kote Kamal Khan after the name
of his father Khan Kamal Khan Kharal, today the same is Kamalia.. In
the Indian
Rebellion of 1857,
it was one of the sites of an uprising by the local people, who held
it for a week. It had a population of 6976 in 1901. It was
identified by
Cunningham as
one of the towns taken by Alexander
the Great in
325BC.
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