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Gujranwala Division is a regulatory division of the Punjab. The Division, settled at the City of Gujranwala, covers an area of 17,512 km2. The region of Gujranwala Division involves six (06) locale (Gujranwala, Sialkot, Mandi Bahauddin, Gujrat, Narowal and Hafizabad). As indicated by 2017 statistics, Gujranwala division had a populace of 16,123,984, which incorporates 7,985,444 guys and 8,133,618 females.

Gujranwala is the capital city of Gujranwala Division. It is otherwise called 'City of Grapplers' and is very renowned for its food. The city is Pakistan's fourth most crowded city as well as fourth most crowded city in general. Established in the eighteenth 100 years, Gujranwala is a moderately current town contrasted with the numerous close by centuries old urban communities of Northern Punjab. The city filled in as the capital of the Sukerchakia Misl state somewhere in the range of 1763 and 1799, and is the origination of the pioneer behind the Sikh Domain, Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

Gujranwala is currently Pakistan's third biggest modern community after Karachi and Faisalabad, and contributes 5% to Pakistan's Gross domestic product. The city is essential for an organization of huge metropolitan places in upper east Punjab that structures one of Pakistan's for the most part exceptionally industrialized districts. Alongside the close by urban areas of Sialkot and Gujrat, Gujranwala shapes part of the purported 'Brilliant Triangle' of modern urban communities with trade situated economies.

Establishment

Gujranwala was established by Gujjars in the eighteenth Hundred years, but the specific beginnings of Gujranwala are muddled. In contrast to the old close by urban communities of Lahore, Sialkot, and Eminabad, Gujranwala is a somewhat current city. It might have been laid out as a town in the sixteenth 100 years. Local people generally accept that Gujranwala's unique name was Khanpur Sansi, however ongoing grant proposes that the town was conceivably Serai Gujran all things considered - a town once situated close to what is presently Gujranwala's Khiyali Door that was referenced by a few sources during the eighteenth Century intrusion of Ahmad Shah Abdali.

Sikh Period

In 1707, with the passing of the last extraordinary Mughal sovereign Aurangzeb, Mughal power started to debilitate quickly particularly following Nader Shah's attack in 1739 and afterward totally dispersed from the Punjab locale because of the intrusions of Ahmad Shah Abdali who struck Punjab commonly somewhere in the range of 1747 and 1772 causing a lot of decimation and mayhem.

Abdali's command over the area started to debilitate in the last option part of the eighteenth Hundred years with the ascent of the Sikh Misls (free chieftainships as a rule comprising of the central's family) who overran Punjab. Charat Singh, leader of the Sukerchakia Misl, laid down a good foundation for himself in a post which he had underlying the area of Gujranwala somewhere in the range of 1756 and 1758.

Nuruddin, a Jammu-based Afghan (Pashtun) general, was requested by Abdali to stifle the Sikhs yet was driven back at Sialkot by Sikh officers drove by Charat Singh. In 1761, Khwaja Abed Khan, Abdali's lead representative in Lahore, attempted to assault Charat Singh's base in Gujranwala however the bid fizzled. The Sikh Misls energized to his help by going after Afghan officials any place they were found. An escaping Abed Khan was sought after by Sikh contingents drove by the Ahluwalia Misl into Lahore, where he was killed. Charat Singh made Gujranwala the capital of his misl in 1763.

In 1774 fight pursued in Jammu, Charat Singh of the Sukerchakia Misl and Jhanda Singh of the strong Bhangi Misl, battling on inverse sides, were both killed. Before his demise, Charat Singh had become expert of huge and touching domains in the three doabs between the Indus and the Ravi. He was prevailed by his child Maha Singh who added to the terrains that Charat Singh had caught as well as competently controlled.

In the Gujranwala region during the 1770s, the JatChathas of Wazirabad and Rajput Bhattis of Hafizabad (Muslims in the two cases) offered 'furious protection from' the Sukerchakias, whose assault was helped by Sahib Singh of the Bhangi Misl. Depicting the contention, the (English) essayist of the Gujranwala Gazetteer composed that blockaded for quite a long time in his stronghold, Ghulam Muhammad Chatha in the end gave up after Maha Singh guaranteed him safe section to Makkah, however the commitment was 'basely broken' when Ghulam Muhammad was shot and his fort leveled to the ground. Rasool Nagar (Prophet's city) which had a place with the Chathas was renamed Ramnagar (Slam's city) to embarrass the Muslims. The Gazetteer noticed that the misleading killing of Chatha and his opposition was recollected 'in numerous a nearby song' in Gujranwala. The Bhattis of Hafizabad tehsil, who were Muslim Rajputs, didn't stop their protection from the Sukerchakias until 1801 when their chiefs were killed and their assets caught. Some Bhattis escaped to Jhang.

Ranjit Singh, Maha Singh's child and replacement who might later proceed to lay out the Sikh Realm, was brought into the world in 1780 in Gujranwala's Purani Mandi market. Ranjit Singh kept up with Gujranwala as his capital at first subsequent to ascending to drive in 1792. His most popular military commandant Hari Singh Nalwa, who was likewise from Gujranwala, fabricated a high mud wall around Gujranwala during this time and laid out the city's new network road plan that exists until the current day. Gujranwala remained Ranjit Singh's capital until he caught Lahore from the Durrani Afghans in 1799, so, all in all the capital was moved there, prompting the general downfall of Gujranwala for Lahore. Jind Kaur, the last sovereign of Ranjit Singh and mother of Duleep Singh, was brought into the world in Gujranwala in 1817.

By 1839, the city's marketplaces were home to an expected 500 shops, while the city had been encircled by various delight gardens, including one laid out by Hari Nalwa Singh that was renowned for its huge swath of fascinating plants.

English Period

The region was caught by the English Realm in 1848, and quickly grew from there on. Estcourt Clock Pinnacle, generally known as Ghanta Ghar, was worked in 1906. Gujranwala's rail station dates from the English period. Gujranwala was consolidated as a district in 1867 and the city's Brandreth, Khiyali, and Lahori Doors worked on the site of Sikh period entryways were finished in 1869. Another clock tower was implicit focal Gujranwala to stamp the downtown area's in 1906.

Christian ministers were brought to the district during English frontier rule, and Gujranwala became home to various places of worship and schools. The city's most memorable Presbyterian Church was laid out in 1875 in the Common Lines region - a settlement constructed one-mile north of the old city to house Gujranwala's European populace. A religious theological college was laid out in 1877, and a Christian specialized school in 1900.

The Northwestern Rail route associated Gujranwala with different urban areas in English India by rail in 1881. The significant Sikh higher learning establishment, Gujranwala Master Nanak Khalsa School, was established in Gujranwala in 1889, however it later moved to Ludhiana. The close by Khanki Headworks were finished in 1892 under English rule, and watered 3 million sections of land in the area. Gujranwala's populace, as per the 1901 enumeration of English India, was 29,224. The city kept on developing quickly until the end of English rule.

Riots emitted in Gujranwala following the Jallianwala Bagh Slaughter in Amritsar on April 1919. These were some of most rough uproars to the English slaughter in all of English India. Riots lead to the harm of the city's rail route station and consuming of the city's Tehsil Office, Clock Pinnacle, Dak Bangla and city courts. A significant part of the city's verifiable record was scorched in the went after workplaces. Protestors in the city, close by towns, and a parade from Dhullay were shot upon with automatic rifles mounted to low-flying planes, and exposed to ethereal siege from the Illustrious Flying corps heavily influenced by Reginald Edward Harry Dyer.

As indicated by the 1941 enumeration, 269,528 out of the Gujranwala Area's 912,234 occupants were non-Muslim. 54.30% of Gujranwala city occupants were Muslims before Segment, however non-Muslims controlled a significant part of the city's economy. Hindus and Sikhs together claimed 66% of Gujranwala's properties. Sikhs were packed in the territories of Master Nanak Pura, Master Gobindgarh, and Dhullay Mohallah, while Hindus were predominant in Hakim Rai, Sheikhupura Door region and Hari Singh Nalwa Market. Muslims were packed in Rasool Pura, Islam Pura and Rehman Pura.

Parcel

Following the Autonomy of Pakistan and the repercussions of the Segment of English India in 1947, Gujranwala was the site of a portion of the most terrible revolting in Punjab. Huge wraps of Hindu and Sikh regions were gone after or annihilated. Agitators in the city acquired reputation for assaults, with the city's Muslim Lohar (smithies) especially doing merciless assaults. In reprisal for assaults against a trainload of evacuees by Sikh agitators at Amritsar rail route station on September 22 that brought about the passings of 3,000 Muslims throughout the span of three hours, agitators from Gujranwala went after a trainload of Hindus and Sikhs escaping towards India on September 23, killing 340 exiles in the close by town of Kamoke Segment riots in Gujranwala brought about orderly viciousness against the city's minorities, and may comprise a demonstration of ethnic purging by current principles. Gujranwala became home to Muslim outcasts who were escaping from the far and wide enemy of Muslim slaughters that terminated eastern Punjab in India of nearly its whole Muslim populace. Outcasts in Gujranwala were fundamentally the people who had escaped from the urban areas of Amritsar, Patiala, and Ludhiana in what had turned into the Indian territory of East Punjab.

Present day Time

The convergence of Muslim outcasts into Gujranwala definitely modified the city's structure. By Walk 1948, more than 300,000 outcasts had been resettled in Gujranwala Locale. Numerous evacuees found post-Segment Gujranwala ailing in open doors, making a move south to Karachi. The exile populace for the most part gotten comfortable territories that were for the most part non-Muslim, as Gobindgarh,