Last name origin & meaning: Indian (Panjab): Sikh name derived from a place name Ahlu +
-wāliā, a Panjabi adjectival suffix. According to
Ibbetson (1916), Ahlu is the name of a village near Lahore which was
founded by Sada Singh Kalal, a man of the Kalal community. The
hereditary occupation of the Kalals was the manufacture of liquors
(Sanskrit kalyapāla ‘distiller of spirituous liquors’), but
when that trade was subjected to government regulation in the 19th
century, they mostly took to commerce. The title Ahluwalia ‘one
from Ahlu’ was first taken by Sada Singh’s descendant, Jassa Singh,
who is said to have been the most powerful and influential chief that
the Sikhs ever had till the rise of Ranjit Singh. The Ahluwalias ruled
in Kapurthala, a district in the Panjab which was once a small
princely state. The family name Ahluwalia is now found not only among
the descendants of Jassa Singh but also among many others who adopted
it later.
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