The history of the Mangrals is covered with the fog and the dust of time. The Great Mangral rulers in line with tradition appointed the trustworthy people from the Mirassi caste and the story tellers of the Panjab Hills States to protect the lineages and the family trees of their ancestors. The Mangral rulers rewarded the Miraasi with Jagirs (feudal lands awarded for service to the ruler). Of particular mention are Rai Qadir Miraasi and Rai Watu Miraasi. Their descendants kept up to date the lineages and many other historical events and the Jagirs are still under their use.
The District Inspector of schools for Mirpur, Raja Muhammad Yaqoob Tariq (The writer of the history of Gakhars) succeeded in meeting with one of the family members of these Miraasis, named Sahib Din and acquired some historical information about Mangral Rajputs of Kotli Mangrallan and published them in a monthly magazine under the subject “The Valley of Sehnsa Kotli” in 1955.This was a short history of Mangral Rajputs.
Hust-O-Bood is the first more detailed history of Mangral written by Mian Ejaz Nabi of Gujarat Pakistan. [3]
((A glossary of the tribes and castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province)) based on the census report for the Punjab, 1883 written by Sir Denzil Ibbetson has reference to the Mangral. Under Western Rajputs, he writes that “The third Group is the Rajpoots of the western hills including the Salt Range Tract, comprising both dominant tribes of proud position such as Janjua and Mongrel Rajpoots from the Jammu hills and descendants either of the Yadu Bansi( Bhutti) dynasty of Kashmir and Mythical Raja Rasalu of Sialkot.” [4] As we wrote earlier, the Mangrals migrated from Jangladesh to Sialkot and then to Kotli in Kashmir.
"KohTali Sey Kotli tak" the article written by Sagar Kashmiri in a College magazine "Naveed-e-Sahar " Kotli Azad Kashmir. (Ref. by Sarfraz Mangral)