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dadhwal is an subcaste originated from Katoch Rajputani princess with Maharaja Ranjit Singh Sikh concubine which uniquely reseated at Lahore state during the Sikh takeover of Lahore Subah after one decade of Afghan possession, (its an Punjabi term for Dandiwal Jutt) which also encountered as dadwals, dhadwals, at some greater stances sometimes they well also relabelled as Dandiwal in many urbanised section of Punjab and donated land for khatree/Khatri who got flooded from Pakistan take refuge at easternmost provincial region of Jat dominated Punjab also known as Jatland,
The Rajput clan to which belongs the ancient ruling family of Datarpur, but said to take its name from Dada in Kangra on the Hoshiarpur border. The Ranas of Bit Manaswal. Or tableland of the Hoshiarpur Shivaliks were Dadhwal Rajputs.
The Dadhwals are found in the neighbourhood of Datarpur. The seat of their former sovereignty, and on the south west face of the Shivaliks in the Hoshiarpur district of Punjab state and Kangra and Una districts of Himachal Pradesh near Dholbaha and Janauri or Janakpuri, its ancient name, which is still used. Janak was an ancient Surajbansi ruler. The Dadhwals are a branch of the Katoch and do not intermarry the with them, or with the Gulerias or Sibayas on the ground of common decent. They have an interesting local history which describes how they wrested the tract round Datarpur from a Chang rani.