 The Sahanpur was a Jat state of Kakran clan of Hindu Jat which claim its descent from lord Rama.To quote the 1908 District Gazetteer's report, "The Sahanpur family is said to-have been founded by one Nahra Singh, a Jat of Ramraipur, near Jhind, in the Punjab.His son, Basru Singh, left the ancestral home in 1600 and settled at Bahadurgarh in the neighbourhood of Dehli.