Talhan is a village in Jalandhar district, near the Jalandhar Cantonment, in Punjab, India. The village was founded by Jats However, they all left the village during Baba Banda Singh Bahadur's time and later joined forces of Baba Baghel Singh Dhaliwal during the Battle of Delhi 1783 and the original inhabitants settled in western Uttar Pradesh. Subsequently, t…Talhan is a village in Jalandhar district, near the Jalandhar Cantonment, in Punjab, India. The village was founded by Jats However, they all left the village during Baba Banda Singh Bahadur's time and later joined forces of Baba Baghel Singh Dhaliwal during the Battle of Delhi 1783 and the original inhabitants settled in western Uttar Pradesh. Subsequently, the village was inhabited by people of Sahgal got who sold the land to Randhawa Jats and Bains Jats of Bahowal, Mahilpur who later inhabitated the village. During the colonial period Talhan housed the zail headquarters, which covered 21 villages, headed by a Bains Zaildar family from 1871 until the Government of India abolished the Zaildari feudal system by in 1952 by abolishing the oppressive feudal legislation. It is mentioned that the zaildar in 1923 was Sham Singh and last zaildar was Zaildar Jagat Singh
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