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Nawanshahr was founded by immigrants from Rahon, a town near the Sutlej River, which is at risk of flooding. They called it Nawanshahar (Punjabi: ਨਵਾਂ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ, literally 'New City'). Nawanshahr was the fortress of Ghorewaha and was linked to Emperor Akbar through kinship ties.
Dewan Banna Mal Misr (Gautam) was born in the Gautam Brahmin (Shori Gotra) family of Nawanshahr. His father was Vaid, Pandit Jhanda Mal. Dewan Banna Mal was an administrator with full sovereign powers of His Highness Maharaja Sir Randhir Singh Bahadur of the Kapurthala estates in Oudh in 1862. Dewan Banna Mal became a mediator between the local landowners of Oudh and Rajas who rebelled against the British in 1857. Resolving disputes between the British and local Rajas Banna Mal of Oudh played an important role and was Chief Minister of Kapurthala State. Dewan Banna Mal Gautam's ancestors were Vaids (Ayurvedic doctor), Dewan Banna Mal built the Shivala Banna Mal temple near the municipal committee office in Nawanshahr. He also built the tall and huge structure Haveli Banna Mal Di Haveli at Vaidan Mohalla in Nawanshahr. His son, Dewan Acchru Mal, was the finance minister of Kapurthala state during the reign of Maharaja Kharak Singh and Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala. Kleinon of Dewan Acchru Mal, Dewan Ambika Prasad Misr (Gautam) became Accountant General of Kapurthala State. Descendants of Banna Mal Currently living in Kapurthala, Phagwara, New Delhi and Dehradun, Descendants of Dewan Banna Mal Pandit Daljit Parshad Gautam Kapurthala Lawyer Renowned civil lawyer of Punjab practicing in Kapurthala until his death in the year 2010, Dewan Ambika Parshad (Accountant General of Kapurthala State). His daughter Savitri Shori Mahajan, a historian and descendant of Dewan Banna Mal, was married to the great Indian historian and lawyer Vidya Dhar Mahajan, his daughters Mridula Mukherjee and Sucheta Mahajan are historians and work as professors of Indian history at JNU New Delhi.

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