Jhabal Kalan in Tarn Taran district produced Mai Bhago Ji, who shamed the forty of the Majha into returning to fight at Khidrana in 1705.
It produced, two centuries later, the Jhabal brothers, Amar Singh, Sarmukh Singh and Sardul Singh, who were central to the Akali movement of the 1920s. Sardul Singh Caveeshar was a leading Akali and Congress figure and later joined the Forward Bloc.
It is also the village most often named in accounts of the Ghadar recruitment in the Majha.
A single village of a few thousand people with a documented role in the Khalsa of 1705, the Akali morchas of 1922 and the Ghadar movement is not unusual in the Majha, and no list of such villages exists.
Most Punjab villages of any size have something of this order in them and nothing has been written down.
Mai Bhago Ji led the forty back to the field at Khidrana and survived the battle. She afterward served in the Guru's guard and went south with him.
Mai Bhago Ji ended her life far to the south. Jinvara near Bidar in Karnataka is where she is said to have settled, and Gurdwara Tap Asthan Mai Bhago at Nanded marks the place she kept afterward. A woman out of an Amritsar district village is commemorated fifteen hundred kilometres away and barely at all at home.
The village has a gurdwara associated with Mai Bhago Ji and nothing that records the twentieth century families. Two histories two hundred years apart in one place and only one of them is marked.