Ahluwalia (misl)

Ahluwalia (also transliterated as Ahluvalia) was a misl, that is, a sovereign state in the Sikh Confederacy of Punjab region in present-day India and Pakistan.

[6][7] The misl rose to prominence under Jassa Singh,[1][8] who was the first person to use the name "Ahluwalia".

Originally known as Jassa Singh Kalal, he styled himself as Ahluwalia after his ancestral village of Ahlu.

[9] Even after other misls lost their territories to Ranjit Singh's Sikh Empire, the emperor permitted the descendants of Jassa Singh to retain their estates.

After the British took over the Sikh territories in 1846, Jassa Singh's descendants became the ruling family of the Kapurthala State.

Ahluwalia Fort
A 1780 map of the Punjab Region shows the relative positions of the Sikh Misls and other states.