1 ■ G° i x
2 f C lj
3 Narmi—Ndru.
4 <SL
5 Ifc will be observed that the Ndrwd, or Narmd claim no connection
6 with the Ndru RAjputs of Hoshidrpur although the word appears to be
7 formed in almost the same way as Bdjwd (-Jat) from Bajju or BAju
8 Rdjput. Possibly -wa is a patronymic.
9 N armi , see under TJfcradnzai.
10 N abu , a Rajput clan (agricultural) found in Amritsar and Mult An.
11 N aed .—With the exception perhaps of the Manj, the Ndru are the most
12 widespread of the Hill Rdjputs ; but their head-quarters are the
13 districts of Jullundur and Hoshidrpur. They differ in their accounts
14 of their own origin. Those of Hoshid,rpur, many or most of whom are
15 still Hindu,* and those of the adjoining northern portions of Jullundur
16 say that they are Chandrabansi and came from the lulls ; while those
17 of the'east of Jullundur about Phillaur, who are all MusaWms, say
18 their ancestor was a Raghobansi Rdjput who came from Ajudhia, en
19 tered the service of Shabdb-ud-din Ghori, and eventually founded
20 Phillaur. A third story makes the common ancestor a son of a Rdja of
21 Jaipur or Jodhpur, who was converted in tlio time of Mahmud of
22 Ghazni, and settled at Bajwdra in Hoshidrpur. The Nd.ru held the
23 Haridna tract on the Jullundur and Hoshidrpur border till the Sikhs
24 dispossessed them. The original settlement of the Jullundur Ndru was
25 Mau, a name which, as Mr. Barkley pointed out, suggests an origin
26 from eastern Hindustan or Central India. Of the Hoshidrpur Ndrd
27 1,279 also returned themselves as Kilchi, 556 as Manhds, and 903 as
28 Gondal in 1881.
29 The Ndru of the Punga, Baddld and Dhiit septs say their ancestors
30 came from Garh Gajni Dhun Peti, in Delhi, and settled inJBajwdra in
31 Akbar’s reign : they are Raghobansi.
32 Another account locates them at Madwdra in Hoshidrpur. Thence
33 Bhdn Nathu and Rdmdn founded Chauthdla in Akbar’s time, and
34 thence Dhut and Daulatpnr, but they perform the bhadan at Madwdra.
35 At Bujhdsan, five ho a from Madwdra, they fought with the Katoch
36 who were offended at a Ndru Rdnd’s obtaining a Katoch princess as
37 his bride, and she was drowned. The Ndru take daughters from them.
38 In Kapurthalathe Ndru say that Haun Bhaf;£i in Hoshidrpur was their
39 first seat: thence Bdghe Khdn founded Bagdna and from his brother
40 Kashmir Khdn the present Ndru claim descent.
41 Confused and conflicting as these Various accounts are, that from
42 Hoshidrpur is totally different from the above. In that District the
43 Ndrus say that their ancestor was a Surajbansi Rdjput of Muttra,
44 named Nipdl Chand, and descended from Rdja Rdm Cliand. Ho was
45 converted in the time of Mahmud of Ghazni and took the name of
46 Ndrti Shdh. Ndru Shdh settled at Mau in Jullundur, whenoe his son,
47 *Mr. D. G. Barkley said tho Ndru of Iloshidrpur wero mostly Muhammadans, though
48 wero Hindus. The Ndru of Bajwdra, though Muhammadan, havo
49 Rdnd. The Bajwdra Hinds claim considerable antiquity and say the
50 ,
51 wa3 founded by a Hand before tho time of Vikramdditya ana Sdlivdhana. They
52 av they became Muhammadans in the time of Mahmud of Ghazni and so retained their
53 ®„Lnendence till the Lodi and Sur Pathans located Afghan settlers in strongholds round
54 p jvv-ara and reduced the Naru Rand to insignificance : P. N. Q. II, §§ 90 and 104.
55 in G urdaspur there
56 retained the title of