Moga

History

A theory states Moga was named after Moga of the Gill clan, who owned a jagir that was located on the present-day location of Moga city. The settlement of Moga (later a town and now a city) was established around 500-years-ago in around the late 15th or 16th century, as per one source. However, other sources date the establishment of Moga to a later period. According to the 2011 district census handbook for Moga district, the Wadan Gills, one of the twelve branches of the Gill Jats, were settled in the southern and western areas of the present-day district in around the early 17th century. However, the settlement was destroyed during the Huna invasion of the Indian subcontinent, with Tihara and Janer also being annihalated. As for the establishment of the re-built Moga, the Gills of Moga are credited by Visakha Singh. According to him, the Gills of Moga trace their origin back to Bathinda, specifically the ruling dynasty of Binaypal. When Binaypal's dynasty in Bathinda was destroyed by a ruler named Mahmud, the Gills are said to have dispersed from the area to settle elsewhere, establishing new villages in the process. One branch of the Gills who left Bathinda went-on to found the settlement of Vairoke, headed by an individual named Moga Gill. When near Moga, he sent his family to safety in Kartarpur and while he remained in the Malwa region with his army. The area of Moga was one of the 45 taluqas (subdistrict) south of the Sutlej River that was claimed by Maharaja Ranjit Singh as belonging to or claimed by him through Sada Kaur as per a list by Captain William Murray on 17 March 1828. In 1899, a co-educational school was founded in Moga (then in the Ferozpore district) by the Dev Samaj.The Dev Samaj school was later upgraded to become the Dev Samaj High School. In…

Most-observed species

• Red-wattled Lapwing

  Vanellus indicus (Boddaert, 1783) · Aves
  13
• Rock Pigeon

  Columba livia J.F.Gmelin, 1789 · Aves
  12
• House Crow

  Corvus splendens Vieillot, 1817 · Aves
  10
• Eurasian Collared-Dove

  Streptopelia decaocto (Frivaldszky, 1838) · Aves
  10
• Common Myna

  Acridotheres tristis (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  8
• Black Drongo

  Dicrurus macrocercus Vieillot, 1817 · Aves
  7
• Black-winged Stilt

  Himantopus himantopus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  7
• Rose-ringed Parakeet

  Psittacula krameri (Scopoli, 1769) · Aves
  6

Most recent

• M 3.7 — 2018-09-23
  21 km E of Chunian, Pakistan
• M 4.5 — 2016-07-17
  7 km ESE of Kahna Nau, Pakistan
• M 3.3 — 2008-04-09
  27 km WSW of Amritsar, India
• M 4.2 — 2002-01-27
  11 km NNW of Khem Karan, India