The '''[[Phulkian Misl|Phulkian]]''' (or '''Phoolkian''') '''[[sardar]]s''' were [[Jat]] [[Sikh]] [[monarch]]s and [[Aristocracy (class)|aristocrat]]s of the [[Punjab, India|Punjab]] in India tracing their genealogy from the 12th century King of [[Jaisalmer State|Jaisalmer]], [[Rawal Jaisal]] and [[Yadu]] [[Bhatti]] [[Rajput]] of the [[Lunar Dynasty|Chandra Vanshi]] clan.<ref>{{cite book|title=[[The Imperial Gazetteer of India]]|chapter=Ferozepur District|volume=12|year=1908|at=[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V12_095.gif p. 89]|quote=About the time of the first Muhammadan invasions a colony of Bhatti Rajputs from Jaisalmer settled in the neighbourhood of Mukhtsar, and the Manj, a branch of them, ousted the Ponwars and became converts to Islam about 1288.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=[[The Imperial Gazetteer of India]]||chapter=Ferozepur District|volume=12|year=1908|at=[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V12_096.gif p. 90]|quote=About the end of the sixteenth century the Sidhu Jats, from whom the Phulkian Rajas are descended, made their appearance; and in the middle of the seventeenth century most of the Jat tribes were converted to Sikhism by Har Rai, the seventh Guru.}}</ref>

==Eponym: The Phulkian States==

The Phulka family had descended from the eponymous group, the Phul Brar, from whom descended the rulers of [[Patiala]], [[Jind]], [[Nabha]] as well as the chiefs of Bhadaur, [[Malaudh]] and [[Badrukhan]] and the Sardars of Juindan, Laudhgarh, Dyalpura, Rampura and Kot Duna. The early progenitors of the Phulka House were scions of the [[Rajput]] family of [[Jaisalmer]] who left their desert homes around the time of Rai Pithora and established themselves in [[Hisar (city)|Hisar]], [[Sirsa, Haryana|Sirsa]] and [[Bhatner]]. [[Maharaja]] Ala Singh of [[Patiala]] descended from Phul and to his genius must be ascribed the remarkable and rapid rise of the family in the first stages of its history.<ref>Indian States: A Biographical, Historical, and Administrative Survey By Somerset Playne, R. V. Solomon, J. W. Bond pp.230</ref>

==Common founder==

Phul, a [[Sidhu#Brars|Sidhu-Brar]] was the founder of this family.<ref name=PhulOrigin>[https://books.google.ca/books?id=i7qgAAAAMAAJ&dq=jaisalmer%20sidhu&pg=PA391#v=onepage&q=Phul&f=false Calcutta Review], Vol. LXXIX (1884), pg 390-391</ref> Phul's eldest son Tiloka was the ancestor of the [[Nabha]], [[Jind]] and Badrukhan royal families and his second son [[Rama]] sired six sons and out of Dunna, Ala Singh and Bakhta sprang the princely states of Bhadaur, Patiala and Malaudh which were the most important of the Cis-Satluj States belonging to Phulkian Misl. Collaterally, the descendants of Phul were connected with the rulers of [[Faridkot, India|Faridkot]], the extinct Kaithal family, and the feudatories of Arnauli, Jhumba, Saddhuwal, and, north of the [[Sutlej]], Attari. These numerous branches belonged to the Sidhu-Brar tribe, the most powerful [[Jat people|Jat]] clan south of the [[Sutlej]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Cunningham|first=Joseph Davey|author-link=Joseph Davey Cunningham|title=A History of the Sikhs: from the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the Sutlej| page=116}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=[[The Imperial Gazetteer of India]]|chapter=Ferozepur District|volume=12|year=1908|quote=The whole cis-Sutlej possessions of the Punjab kingdom passed into the hands of the East India Company, and the little principality of Ferozepore became at once the nucleus of an important British District. The existing area was increased by subsequent additions, the last of which took place in 1884. Since the successful close of the first Sikh campaign, the peace of the District has never been broken, except during the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|Mutiny of 1857]].|at=[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V12_097.gif p. 91]}}</ref>

* [[Misl| Sikh Misls]]

* [[cis-Sutlej States]]

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