@Rafi village was part of Porus’s army. Infact I believe they built a monument for them.
Idk some one told me King Porus was some how related to Potohar. Not sure though.
What I hear though is, the region used to be completely populated like a giant metropolis back in the days. If a goat were to climb the roof of a house, it would come down 20 km's away.
Then either the Earthquake or whatever happened and the whole plain became a mess. I have seen places where bones from burried bodies of the old are coming out of the sides of cliffs. I should probably get some images of the region the next time I'm there.
The area I come from is Kinda cool though. Not much populated any more, and lots of streams and jungles. Most of it is owned by my family or say came down from ancestors. My family used to own a 1947 Willys jeep rebuilt and modified to look pretty cool when I was a teenager. Going hunting almost every other midnight was a daily routine in the winter.
What I heard was there were two brothers (my ancestors) who came to this area and marked it and divided between themselves while riding on their horses (came from sialkot I suppose, or wherever they were living after having left Sialkot).
Then there was another ancestor who used to live on his own in a giant havely kinda thingy and he got married to a woman who brought working couples for every task (Rajput women were given a couple for every kind of task like Tailors, In house workers, Horse Tammers and so on) and they settled outside their haveli with their doors opening into it so to be present when called. And that created the whole village where I was born, and later moved in my early childhood.
The Potohari we speak in my particular area is also slightly different than the Potohari you will hear elsewhere.
I think that excluding the hilly areas, all the mildly undulating and broken lands, lying between River Jhelum and River Indus, are Pothohar. This includes districts of Jhelum, Chakwal, Rawalpindi, Islamabad and possibly Attock.
Yeh the plateu used to be a plain and then got torn a part with an earth quake or whatever. There are some horrific stories in the folklore of the devastation.
