This feeling of history comes through forcefully in the present series of documents. Repeatedly one comes upon references to grants dating back to the rule of the (Mughal) emperors”. It is not possible with certitude to fix the precise date from which the establishment has come down, mostly because the documents as they have survived in the Pindori collection do not go back to anything earlier than the last quarter of the 17th century. But there are strong indications that there were many more, and older, documents belonging to the gaddi. There is a reference, in the Gazetter of the Gurdaspur District? to the original copper-plate grant from the time of the Emperor Jahangir being preserved, though now not traceable, at the daughter.