Chohla Sahib in Tarn Taran district is associated with Guru Arjan Dev Ji, and the account is that the village had bad water and that a well was sunk on his instruction.
Verowal, Sarhali, Jhabal, Sur Singh, Naushehra Pannuan and a dozen other villages in the same district each carry an association with one Guru or another and a gurdwara marking it.
That density is characteristic of the Majha: the Gurus lived and moved in this country for two hundred years, and almost every village in Amritsar and Tarn Taran districts has something.
In most of them the association is all that survives. There is no local written history, the story is told orally, and the building has usually been rebuilt in marble in the last thirty years with nothing of the older fabric kept.
A survey of the Majha's village gurdwara traditions, village by village, recording what each says about itself, would be a substantial piece of work and would take one person a year on a motorcycle.
The well at Chohla Sahib is still there and the water is drawn and carried away by visitors. What is claimed for a place of this kind is a well, a tree, a stone or the spot where somebody sat, and none of those is the sort of thing that carries a date.
Goindwal has the baoli with its eighty four steps, begun under Guru Amar Das Ji in 1552, which drew pilgrims from far and near. Khadur has the langar tradition. Tarn Taran has the tank Guru Arjan Dev Ji had dug. All of it is inside about twenty kilometres of flat country.
It is also border country now. The visitors go to the four or five largest shrines and the rest of the tract is not on any route.