Nangal Sirohi, famous for the painted Shekhavati Rajput architecture Havelis, is a village in Mahendragarh district in the Indian state of Haryana.
500 years ago,[1] The Nangal Sirohi village is situated between Mohinder Garh and Narnaul City on National Highway 148 B.
This area which was earlier under the Jaipur state, came under the Sindhu Jat ruler Maharaja of Patiala.
[1] Later in Vikram Samvat 1959 (1902 CE), Lala Deen Dayal built an ornately decorated caravanserai in Shekhavati Rajput architecture.
[1] Havelis are located in the older Part of the village called Nichla Baas (downside habitation), built by local trading communities in 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
These were built by Chejaraas (masons) and Chiteyraas (painters) summoned from Shekhawati region of the erstwhile Jaipur State of Rajpootana, who painted the images of Shekhawati Sirdars and events from the native feudal life.
[1] Several of these havelis are facing neglect due to migration of their owners to other areas for the business.
Havelis are of artistic excellence, academic and cultural significance, there is lack of awareness about their conservation or documentation by scholars.
[1] The population of the village is 8916 people and there are 4786 election voters of Gram Panchayat.
The second cast which is Brahmin with majority of Sanwalodia Bhardwaj Gotra, who are approximately 120 families in number and have rest of the agricultural land.
In olden days the public was poor and even they had no pucca houses to live in up to independence of the country and only Banias and some influential people have Pucca house or Havely.
After all average income is low due to lack of industrial and infrastructural development of the area.