Jat Clan: Sanghera/Senghera
Distribution	Punjab (India) Punjab (India) Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...  and Punjab (Pakistan) Punjab (Pakistan) Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...
Religion	Sikhism Sikhism Sikhism is a monotheistic religion founded during the 15th century in the Punjab region, by Guru Nanak Dev and continued to progress with ten successive Sikh Gurus . It is the fifth-largest organized religion in the world and one of the fastest-growing...
Languages	Punjabi Punjabi language Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region . For Sikhs, the Punjabi language stands as the official language in which all ceremonies take place. In Pakistan, Punjabi is the most widely spoken language...
Ancestors	Saroya Rajput

Sanghera/Senghera (Punjabi:ਸੰਘੇੜਾ ) is a gotra

Gotra

In the Hindu society, the term Gotra broadly refers to people who are descendants in an unbroken male line from a common male ancestor. Panini defines gotra for grammatical purposes as apatyam pautraprabhrti gotram , which means "the word gotra denotes the progeny beginning with the son's son"...

 of the Jat people

Jat people

The Jat people are a community of traditionally non-elite tillers and herders in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subsequently into the Delhi Territory,...

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Geographical distribution

The Sanghera/Senghera community are a famous jat clan .
They came into Punjab around 1469 AD. Guru Hargobind visited Gujjarwal in 1631 AD. Many Sangheras/Sengheras converted to Sikhism at this time. Sangheras/Sengheras also contributed in the freedom fight of India. Kartar Singh Sarabha from Sarabha village lead the fight and was accepted as a guru by the freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.
Located south of the Sutlej River, the Sangheras/Sengheras came under British rule early even as Maharaja Ranjit Singh consolidated the Sikh Empire all the way to Kabul. The Sanghera/Senghera villages are characterized by large and very powerful land holdings and large estates called zamindaris. The Sanghera/Senghera Clan is also believed to be the first family clan to form Shera Punjab (S(ang)hera) and there men are known for their honesty and courage and pride for there families. There men also treat women with respect.In contrast, the Sanghera/Senghera villages with a rural middle class prospered and established schools which led to further progress. Education became the passport for the Sangheras/Sengheras to travel and obtain positions across the Punjab and also relieve pressure on the land holdings. They also joined the British-India mercenary army and fought in wars from Mesopotamia to Germany.
Women's emancipation came early to the Sangheras/Sengheras: a girl's high school was established in Gujjarwal over a hundred years ago. Sanghera/Senghera girls travelled to Delhi and graduated from Lady Hardinge Medical College early in the twentieth century. With education came problems for the girls; while sought after as educated brides, they were also less likely to accept the often vicious treatment of daughters-in-laws across the Punjab. The prohibition of Sangheras/Sengheras marrying Sangheras/Sengheras only made the matters worse. Female infanticide was not unusual across Sanghera/Senghera villages: it was perceived as less painful compared to watching a life-time of torture by the in-laws. In the Sanghera/Senghera villages women held equal power and worked and moved freely where they pleased.

In India, members of the Sanghera/Senghera gotra are found in the states of Punjab

Punjab (India)

Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...

 and Haryana

Haryana

Haryana is a state in India. Historically, it has been a part of the Kuru region in North India. The name Haryana is found mentioned in the 12th century AD by the apabhramsha writer Vibudh Shridhar . It is bordered by Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the north, and by Rajasthan to the west and south...

. In Punjab Sangheras/Sengheras are settled in large numbers in the districts Gurdaspur

Gurdaspur District

Gurdaspur district is a district in the state of Punjab, situated in the northwest part of the Republic of India. Gurdaspur is the district headquarters. It internationally borders Narowal District of the Pakistani Punjab, Kathua District of Jammu and Kashmir, the Punjab districts of Amritsar and...

, Amritsar

Amritsar District

Amritsar district is one of 22 districts in the state of Punjab in West India. It has a population of 3,074,207 and covers an area of 5075 km²...

, Jalandhar

Jalandhar District

Jalandhar district , Jalandhar Zilā) is one of the 22 districts in the state of Punjab in North-West Republic of India. The capital is Jalandhar City...

, Hoshiarpur

Hoshiarpur District

Hoshiarpur District , is a district of Punjab state in northern India.In 2011, Hoshiarpur had population of 1,582,793 of which male and female were 806,921 and 775,872 respectively. There was change of 6.85 percent in the population compared to population as per 2001...

, Fatehgarh

Fatehgarh

Fatehgarh is a cantonment town in Farrukhabad district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located on the right bank of the Ganges River. It is the administrative headquarters of Farrukhabad District. Fatehgarh derives its name from an old fort. It is a small city with no significant...

, Patiala

Patiala District

Patiala district is one of the twenty districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India.Patiala District lies between 29 49’ and 30 47’ north latitude, 75 58’ and 76 54' east longitude, in the southeast part of the state...

, Sangrur

Sangrur district

Sangrur district is in the state of Punjab in North-West Republic of India. Earlier Barnala was part of Sangrur district, but now Barnala is a separate district.-Sangrur consists of following cities:DHURIMALERKOTLA...

, Nabha

Nabha

Nabha is a city and municipal council in the Patiala district to the south-west of the Indian state of Punjab. In 1998, the annual income of Nabha state was Rs 1,50,000/-.- Princely State of Nabha :...

, Ludhiana

Ludhiana District

-Rainfall:The rainfall in the district increases from the southwest toward the northeast. About 70% of the rainfall is received during the period of July through September...

, Malerkotla

Malerkotla

Malerkotla is a city and a municipal council in Sangrur district in the Indian state of Punjab. It was the seat of the eponymous princely state during the British Raj...

, Moga

Moga District

Moga district is one of the Twenty districts in the state of Punjab in North-West Republic of India. It became the 17th district of Punjab State on 24 November 1995. It is also known as NRI district. Most Punjabi Non-resident Indians belong to rural areas of Moga District, who immigrated to the...

, Ferozepur, and Bathinda

Bathinda District

Bathinda district is in Punjab, India. The districts encompasses an area of 3,344 square kilometres. It is bounded by Faridkot district on the north, Mukatsar district on the west, Barnala and Mansa districts on the east, and the state of Haryana on the south...

, the major cities, Delhi

Delhi

Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...

 and Chandigarh

Chandigarh

Chandigarh is a union territory of India that serves as the capital of two states, Haryana and Punjab. The name Chandigarh translates as "The Fort of Chandi". The name is from an ancient temple called Chandi Mandir, devoted to the Hindu goddess Chandi, in the city...

 Pandhor, manwal,mamun, nurpur

Nurpur

Nurpur is a city and a municipal council in Kangra district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It was formerly a Kingdom ruled by the Pathania clan of Rajputs, since the 11th century AD. The capital of the Kingdom was at Pathankot, now in Punjab....

,Himachal pradesh also have many Sanghera/Senghera families. There are several villages in India which were originated by Sangheras/Sengheras.

The vast majority of Sangheras/Sengheras are located in the Malwa region consisting of about 31 villages in Moga and Ludhiana. More than half of the Sangheras/Sengheras from Moga live in Vancouver British Columbia.

Many Sanghera/Senghera Jatt families are also based in parts of Jalandhar

Jalandhar

Jalandhar is a city in Jalandhar District in the state of Punjab, India. It is located 144 km northwest of the state capital, Chandigarh...

 such as the villages Bilga

Bilga

Bilga is a historical village near the city, Nurmahal. Bilga has now grown to have town status. Nurmahal is a sub tehsil in the district Jalandhar in the Indian state of Punjab.- About :The majority of people living in Bilga are of the Jatt clan, Sanghera....

, Talwan,Gohir,Sanghera/Senghera,Shankar Sareenh, Paasla and Pharwaala. in Hoshiarpur, the Village of Jalota (Raja-Jalota, Harminder Singh Sanghera/Senghera), Near Dasuya. The Amritsar

Amritsar

Amritsar is a city in the northern part of India and is the administrative headquarters of Amritsar district in the state of Punjab, India. The 2001 Indian census reported the population of the city to be over 1,500,000, with that of the entire district numbering 3,695,077...

 district has a dense population of Sangheras/Sengheras in Khojala village. The Sangrur

Sangrur

Sangrur is a city in the Indian state of Punjab, India. It is the headquarters of the Sangrur district. It is located at the intersection of the roads connecting Delhi with Ludhiana and Patiala with Bathinda, at a distance of 80 km from Ludhiana and 48 km from Patiala. The...

 district has a big village settled by Sangheras/Sengheras which is named Sanghera/Senghera. Most of these families are engaged in farming and business. The largest city in Doaba

Doaba

Doaba is the region of Indian Punjab surrounded by the rivers Beas and Sutlej. The name "Doaba" literally translates to "land of two rivers" . It is one of the most fertile regions of the world, and was the centre of the Green Revolution in India.Scheduled castes form more than 35% of the...

, Phillaur

Phillaur

Phillaur is a town and a municipal council in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab.- Overview :Phillaur is the railway junction on the border line of Ludhiana and Jalandhar Cantonment. It was a junction for Lohian and Ferozepur. In pre-partition days, it was the main timber market of...

, was originally named as Phulnagar (which translates to, The Town of Flowers i.e. nagar = town/city, phul = flower), by a Sanghera/Senghera Jatt called Phul.

Sangheras/Sengheras have migrated to all corners of the globe with significant populations having settled in parts of Malaysia, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

, the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 and Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

New Zealand. In the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 most Sangheras/Sengheras originate form the villages of district, Jalandhar

Jalandhar

Jalandhar is a city in Jalandhar District in the state of Punjab, India. It is located 144 km northwest of the state capital, Chandigarh...

, especially the village, Bilga

Bilga

Bilga is a historical village near the city, Nurmahal. Bilga has now grown to have town status. Nurmahal is a sub tehsil in the district Jalandhar in the Indian state of Punjab.- About :The majority of people living in Bilga are of the Jatt clan, Sanghera....

 and Gohir --Harminder Singh Sanghera__Village Jalota, in Dasuya, Hoshiarpur is also very much known amongst NRI's. Even in India they respectable posts all around.

Most Popular Sanghera Family Migrated in 1947 From Amritsar India (jalalabad village) to Tehsil Samundri District Faisalabad (Pakistan). Ch Bilal Arshad Sanghera is the member of that family and working as Assistant Director In Labor and Manpower Division Govt of Pakistan.

Mouza Jalal Abad Shumali is village of Sangheras/Sengheras near to Multan Punjab Pakistan. They are migrated from Sanghera/Senghera Estate(Jalalabad)in 1890 which was allotted by King Jalal ud Din Akber, so this village was named on the name of Jalal ud din Akbar. After Migration on 1890, they named Jalal Abad. Muhammad Abdullah Sanghera working at National Bank of Pakistan, Regional Office Multan as Officer Grade-I and his family is living at Jalal Abad Shumali village and are big supporters of Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi Ex-Foreign Minister of Pakistan. Ali Raza Sanghera is now student of veterinary sciences at Agriculture University Faisalabad.
In India the majority of people that have this surname are Sikhs.
In Pakistan Sangheras/Sengheras are Muslims.
A renowned personality belonging to Jalalabad shumali, Multan is Khalid Mahmood Sanghera who is working as Librarian at Governemnt College for Elementary Teachers Training Rangeelpur Multan. He is Ph.D. Research Scholar at Uinversity of the Punjab, Lahore. He got Gold Medals in Masters in Library and Information Science (M.L.I.Sc.) and Diploma Library and Information Science (D.L.I.SC.) from Islamia University of Bahawalpur and university of Balochistan, Quetta respectively. He is President Punjab School Library Association and Member Executive Council Pakistan Library Association (PLA), Punjab Branch, Pakistan. He was also awarded AMK Sajid Gold Medal by Punjab College Library Association (PCLA)on his brillient achievements in the field of Library and informations Science.

See also

• Jatt Sikh
• Phillaur
  Phillaur
  Phillaur is a town and a municipal council in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab.- Overview :Phillaur is the railway junction on the border line of Ludhiana and Jalandhar Cantonment. It was a junction for Lohian and Ferozepur. In pre-partition days, it was the main timber market of...
  
  
• Sanghera's International Website