THE BATTLE OF MANGAL: 1821 AD

Jadoons, Tanolis, Marjans, Karrals and their other allies intercepted the passage of Hari Singh Nalwa, Governor of Kashmir, at Mangal, who was coming from Kashmir without facing any resistance from Garhi Habibullah to Mansehra. Parleys having failed, Hari Singh stormed their position and burnt Mangal town. Jadoons, Tanolies, Marjans and other allies suffered a heavy loss of lives. As a further punishment, Hari Singh levied a fine of rupees 5/- on every household inhabited by Jadoons. He built a fort at Nawanshehr in the centre of Jadoons’ area and garrisoned it with strong contingent of Sikh force. The exploits of Hari Singh pleased Ranjit Singh, who appointed him the governor of Hazara. In between 1822 and 1837, Hari Sing ruled Hazara with unprecedented barbarity. In 1823, he inflicted severe chastisement on Jadoons, Swathis and Tanolies, who had taken advantage of his absence and attacked the forts of Nawanshehr, Shinkiari and Darband. The Jadoons were defeated at Nawanshehr with heavy slaughter. At Nara in Mishwani area, Hari Singh himself was wounded in the fighting. When recovered, he surprised the Jadoon villagers of Bagra, where he slew every armed man, as Jadoons had sided with Mishwani and Utmanzais in the encounters of Nara.
A renowned hero of Jadoon tribe, Shaikha Salar Jadoon, father of Abdullah Khan of village Chamba, alongwith other notables of the Hazara, was blown away from a gun at Haripur on the orders of Hari Singh Nalwa on the advice of Muqadam Musharaf, chief of the Gujars of Kotnajibullah.

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Names of some other valient heroes blown away from gun, besides Sheikha Jadoon, are as under:

1. BostanKhan,TarinPathanofDervesh.
   
2. Muhammad Khan, Tarin Pathan of Talokar
   Mohri.
   
3. JalalKhan,DilazakPathanofSaraiSaleh.
   
4. SherMuhammad,MishwaniPathan.
   
5. SalimKhan,MishwaniPathan.
   

During the First Sikh War in 1846, the people of Hazara attempted to shake off Sikhs’ rule and the first to rise were Dhunds, lead by the Pirs of Palasi. They were joined later by the people of Northern Hazara, the Jadoons, the Tarins, the Tanolis and Karrals, etc. During Sikh rule, Barkhurdar Khan, Peru Khel, Hassazai of Dhamtaur was the Khan of the Jadoon tribe.