The Nakai held the Nakka, the tract between Lahore and Multan on the left bank of the Ravi, dry country of scattered wells. Its founder was Hira Singh Sandhu and its seat was at Baherwal and later Chunian.
It was among the smaller misls and its history is mostly of local fighting with the Bhangis and with the Kasur Pathans.
Ranjit Singh Ji married Raj Kaur of this misl in 1798. She was renamed Datar Kaur to avoid sharing a name with his mother, and she was the mother of Kharak Singh, his heir. She is the wife most often named in the Punjabi sources as having influence over him.
The misl was absorbed around 1810. Its territory is now in Pakistan and its name survives mainly as a subcaste designation.
Chunian was a pargana town of the Mughal period, so the misl took over an existing administrative centre rather than building one. That is what the smaller misls generally did.
Datar Kaur is recorded as having gone with the court on campaign and as having held revenue assignments of her own, which was not unusual among the senior women of that state and is barely written about.
The absorption was accomplished without a battle of any consequence, as most of the absorptions were. The sardars were given jagirs in the new state and their descendants served in it.