Kamalia

Kamalia takes its name from Kamal Khan, a Kharal chief who founded the settlement in the fourteenth century. The Kharals of Kamalia, also known as the Lekhari, lived along the lower Ravi and quarrelled with the Upera Kharals upstream. The Sial chiefs of Jhang also sought control of the town.

Walidad Khan of Jhang took Kamalia from the Kharals, but after his death in 1747 his successor restored their rule. In 1768 Nahar Singh of the Nakai Misl died fighting the Kharals here, and the town subsequently passed to the Nakais. During a later Durrani invasion, Multan's governor expelled the Sikhs and restored a Kharal chief. Ranjit Singh annexed Kamalia in 1803, while granting the local leader proprietary rights over forty nearby villages.