Manawala (Urdu: مانانوالہ) is a city in Sheikhupura District, Punjab, Pakistan.

[1][note 1] Prior to the Partition of India, Mananwala was established in 1890 by Sardar Bahadur Kirpal Singh Mann, head of the famous Jat Sikh Mann Sardars of Mughalchak, Gujranwala.

[2] Initially consisting of five large Havelis within a fortified perimeter,[3][4][5] Mananwala has now expanded into a sizeable city of more than 9 square kilometres and with a population of over 50,000 people.

The Mann Sardars, handsome, gallant and true; the Majithias, wise and timid.”[6] Hari Ram Gupta accounts that in mid-eighteenth century, in order to establish and strengthen the Sukerchakia Misl, Charat Singh made four major matrimonial alliances, one of which was made with the Mann Sardars of Mughalchak.

[15] Lepel H. Griffin records that the Mann Sardars were very powerful and continued to hold great prestige and fame even after the rise of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, with "at one point there were no fewer than twenty-two members of it holding key military appointments of great trust and honour".