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Kahlwan

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Kahlwan is a village in Jalandhar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 22 kilometres (14 mi) from Jalandhar, which is both district and sub-district headquarters of Kahlwan. The village is administrated by a Sarpanch who is an elected representative of village as per the constitution of India and Panchayati raj (India). Khalwan is famous for being the birthplace and area of activity of notorious gangster Sukha Khalwan.This village is also linked with Sardar Lehna Singh Kahlon of the Bhangi Misl, who ruled Lahore between 1765 and 1797 and his son Chet who ruled for 2 years before losing Lahore to Maharaja Ranjit Singh - the Kahlons in this village are from his Tubbar (clan) as the Jathera of people in Kahlwan is Village Saidowal near Gurdaspur which is where Lehna's grandfather came from with the mother village in Kartarpur being Mustfapur which is where the grandfather settled - see Sir Leppel Griffin's Panjab Chiefs under Bhangi Sardars.

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