1 ^^8 PANJAB CASTES.
2 0, the we at. weddi.,. and ^^^J^^^^Z:^ ^.f ^^^ '^tll'^^h^^f ^
3 ^Z :'eXlf ft-fdln S»u.Kle7Mvfs;,.:ad so Jwl.t, e.peeiany ea.wavds.
4 Th«Kahlon(No 16) -The Ka Won claim descent from Raja Vikrama3it of the Lunar hue
5 *, ^^^^a IaJdeo\d Dar/na-ar Under his descendant SoU or Sodi they le t Daranagar and
6 The Sarai (No 17) -The Sarai Jats are, so far as our figures go chiefly ^ '"""f. - «™;f ^J"^
7 and ^«S«4 are a ^e. on^ u^ g «nd^ H^^^^^ho ^rS^Ll^lS^
8 people wit). certamtyTbe^^ar^a^d^^^^^ ^a^^^,^, ^^^^^^ ^^^_^ ^^^
9 from an ancestor called »'"a\" »« ^e"'«^' ^ ,, f^^Uy of Derah C.hazi Khan, who are
10 connection between them and he ?ara«^ o g^^,. ^^.^ ,,ia to be a wcU-
11 discussed tmder the head Shekh and who^^d^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ g^,^^,.. ^^^ ^^^^ ^j. ^
12 known Jat clan mJaandhar and the neighbouim^^ ^^^^^^,^.^ bank of the
13 race of Punwitr Rajputs -ho founded ^^^ ^^^^^^^^'^ '^^,,^ to the country and its princes
14 Indn., and " f!™ ^^^.^ "|Xa^f " Se fu^her the Sara Jats of the central districts, section 436. )
15 Of thVaVrl^o^oXur Sl'havf themselves as tribe Sindhu, clan Sara,, and appear
16 Of the sarai oi uu a p discussed presently.
17 ''' TheG raya^No 18 -TheGoravaare said by one account to be descended from the Sai.ha
18 ine iiurayd (,""• 1°^ \" ■„,„», a„ivoiiwoli ai n nomad and pastoral tribe trom
19 family of Lunar ^^W^'^-^f.^^Xl deTendea 1 3 a Sombansi Ri put called Gm-aya whose
20 Sirsa. Another story IS that they are descenaeaiiom jt tradition is that
21 r^nr-'^flnr caT f\l^t'j mirhms YnthT'tfrnr^f^e Emperca-s.. They are now
22 R4na their foundei cam liomiiie ^^ ^^^ .^ Gujranwala and are
23 rZSt:"^I^XZ^^^^^^^^y -^^^-^- saldtobeaclan of
24 the DMl-™ *^:^^- ^ 45^ D,,„to, ,eturned in our tables, of whom 1,428 ar e
25 The Dhotar and ^Od ke.-Ttae are l 4&* u ^^ ^^ descended from a Solar Ra put
26 found m «>i3'''7^1^-„.^^?> -7 o^ according to another story, from Ghazni some 20 generations
27 who emigrated from Hindustan o.areoram lo a ^/' j^j^ Montgomery district, who
28 back. The Lodike are considered to oea clan ottne ^narr I Rajput descent, and to
29 are described separately. In C "3^'"7^)!^ "^^^^^.j^;", ^'Ve Guirlnwa a bar ILe ten generations
30 have come from the Ravi the klaarna ^^^J^'^'^;'^^^^ *^^ ^he ,an,ls of the Virk forced them to
31 :iSie-da\;d^trJo-i-^^^^^^^^^^^^^
32 The Chatta-Appear to be confined .. Gujranw . --hichjis tnct t^^^^^^^^^^^ 81 ullages
33 and number 2,27 L '<i^^%,J^''yt2.^o^thellZ^tOTTthe Clum;. In the 10th generation
34 theChauhdnKiugof Dehh, ^"^ ^^^^fj 5° ^ "'al° , was Dahru who came from Sambhal in
35 from Chatta or, as otherwise stated, '°?^^^,°.°"chW 4nfs ill live, to the banks of the Chanab and
36 ri^SngT^ivTtS.f^t^S^t;^^^aSn^^^o^'^>^^"-f-^- ^
37 434. Jats of the Sikh tract.-The group of Jats we have ^ow to con-
38 sider are the typicaUats of the Panjab, including all those great Sikh Jat
39 SsX have made the raee so r-enowned in recent history They occupj
40 the central cUstricts of the Panjab, the upper Satlu], and the great Sikh
41 l^tatesSf the Eastern Plains. aIi that I . have said m he P-eding sec-
42 tion (i 4311 recardiug the absence of any wish on the pait ot tHe Jats oj
43 tteihatsa lo b^e aug'ht but Jats. applies here ^jfj^^\^
44 Sidhu claims indeed Rajput origin, and apparently ^f /^ Than Bhatti
45 he is now a Sidhu Jat/ and holds that to be a P^'^l.^ f ^,^^i£rMe
46 Rajput. The only tribe among th-s group of which ^J "^f ^^^^^^^^^^^^
47 •"^ • ■ ^ themselves as Rajputs are the \ uk .nd among
48 .^..:.,(i.<.A,.i,.^iU nn the extreme outskirts ot the
49 numl)ers have returned
50 them this has happened
51 tract. These men are tht
52 only in Gdjrdnwala, on the extreme outskirts ot the
53 tract. These men are .n. backbone of the Pan jab by ehar-acter and physique
54 as well as by locality, -^hey are stalwart, sturdy yeomen of gieat indepen
55 L"l i.d X, and' agiicultural sk-ill, and collectively form perhaps ti