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APPENDIX 2
History of Halari Visa Oshwals in World Cutchh and Halar
Time in Vikram Samvat
1550-1700: Mass migration of Oshwals from Sindh and Marward.
1575 (1529 A.D.): Jam Raval left Cutchh with 80,000 people including 5,000 Oshwal men, women and children for Saurastra. On the way he conquered several kingdoms.
1585 (1539 A.D.): Jam Rawal who had conquered many kingdoms in Saurastra consolidated his kingdom and named it Halar from the name of his ancestor Jam Halaji and made Khambhalia its capital.
1596 (1550 A.D.): Jam Rawal built a new city and called it Navanagar. He moved the capital of his kingdom from Jam Khambhalia to Navanagar and renamed it Jamnagar.
1613-62: Akbar became the Emperor of India. According to some historians he adopted the Jain religion in 163738.
1618: Jam Rawal passed away. 1668-1676: Oshwal Shreshthi Lalan gotra Vardhman Shah and Padmasinh Shah took a large contingent on a pilgrimage to Satrunjay. They built new Jain temples and started trade with China. Vardhman Shah appointed as prime minister of Halar.
