1 122 PANJAB CASTES.
2 The Man (No. 5). — The Man, the second of the asl Jat trihes, do sometimca chiim, as has just
3 l)een stated, KajinU ancestry ; and it is said that Tli^kur Rajputs of the Man tribe are still to be
4 found in Jaipur (see further Dalai in section 440). Several of the leading Sikh families belong
5 to this tribe, and tlieir history will be found at pages 177 to 183 and 307 to 314 of Sir Lepel
6 Gv'iffin'a Panjifb Chiefs. That writer states that there is "a popular tradition in the Panjah
7 " which makes all of the INIan tribe hrave and true." The home of the Jlan is in the northern
8 Malwa, to the east of that of tlie Bhiilar ; l)ut they too are widely distributed, being fcund in every
9 disti'ict and state of the Panjab east of Lahore, especially in tlie northern districts and along the
10 Satlu.i. From the fact that the Man both of Jalandhar and of Karnal trace their origin to the
11 neiffhbora'hood of Bhatinda, it would appear probable that there was the original home of the
12 tribe.
13 The Her (No. 6). — The Her is the third of this group of trihes, and their home appears to
14 lie nortli of the Satluj ; indeed had not it been that I wished to keep the three together, I should
15 have taken the Her nnth the Jats of the eastern sub-montane. They are found however in con-
16 siderable numbers under the hills from Ambala in the cast to Gu.irat in the west, and throughout
17 the whole upper valley of the Satluj. Of tlie number shown, 5,812 were entered in my tables
18 as Aher, of whom 2,786 were in Husliyai^pur, but I am informed that this is merely another way
19 of spelling Her. Of course they returned themselves an Aher Jats, nut as Alier or Ahir liy caste.
20 There is a very old village called Her in the Nakodar ^oi«/? of Jalandhar which is still held by
21 Her Jats, wlio say that they have lived there for a thousaud years, in other words for an indefinite
22 period.
23 436. The Jat tribes Of the Sikh tract continued. The Buttar (No, 7).— Tlie Buttar are a
24 small tribe found, so far as our figures go, chiefly on (he Upper Satluj, I am not quite sure that
25 they are distinct from the P.hutta Jats of the Western Plains, which have been already described
26 in section 429, or from the Buta of Hushyai'imr to be described in section 438. They are said to
27 be descended from a Surajbansi Kdjput who came from the Lakki jungle and settled first in
28 Gujraiiwala.
29 The Odi (No. 8). — The Odi would appear from our figures to be confined to the Firozpur
30 District. They appear to be a clan of the Dharfwal tribe, as 8,715 of the 8,722 Odi in Firozpur
31 and 787 more in Xabha have returned themselves as Dliariwal Odi. They are shown in the
32 Abstract under both headings. On the other hand the 390 Odi of Gujrat have returned them-
33 selves as Tarar Odi, as have 417 in Gujranwala.
34 The Bal (No. 9). — The Bal are another tribe of the Peas and Upper Satluj, and are said to
35 be a clan of the Sekhu tribe with whom they do not intermarry. Their ancestor is also said to
36 have been a Rajput of royal race who came from Slalwa. The name Pal, which is derived from
37 a root meaning " strength," is a famous one in ancient Indian History, .and recui's in all sorts of
38 forms and places.
39 The Pannun (No. 10)— claim Solar Rajpdt ancestry. They are chiefly found in Amritsar
40 and Gm-daspur so far as our figures show ; but they also own five villages in Sialkot. They say
41 that their ancestors came from Ghazni ; or according to another story, from Hindustan.
42 The Mahal (No. 11) — is a small tribe which appear to be chiefly found in Jalai dhar and
43 Amritsar. Tlieir ancestor is said to have been a Rajput from Modi in the Malwa.
44 The Aulak (No. 12). — The head-quarters of the Aulak Jats would appear (o lie in the
45 Amritsar District ; but they are found in the northern Malwa, as well as in the Manjha and west
46 of the Ravi. They are said to be of Solar descent, and their ancestor Aulak lived in the Manjha.
47 But another story makes their ancestor one Raja Lui Lak, a Lunar Rajput. They are related
48 to the Sekhu and Deo tribes, with whom they will not intermarry.
49 The GU (No, 13), — The Gil is one of the largest and most important of the Jat tribes. So
50 far as oui' figures show, their head-quarters are the Lahore and Firozpur Districts; but they are
51 found all along the Beas and Upper Satluj, and under the hills as far west as Sialkot. Gil, tlieir
52 ancestor, and father of Shergil, the founder of another Jat tribe, was a Jat of Raghobansi Rajput
53 descent who lived in the Firo/.pur District ; he was a line.il descendant of Pirthi Piil, Raja of Garh
54 Mithila and a Waria Rajput, by a Bhular Jat wife. The tribe rose to some importance under the
55 Sikhs, and the history of its principal family is told at pages 3o2ffoi GriflBu's Panjdb Chiefs.
56 The SidhU and Barar tribes (Nos. 14— 15).— The Sidhu, with its branch the Banir or rp 232-|
57 Sidhu-Barar, is the largest and most important of the Jat tribes of the Panjab, for from it have •- ' ■'
58 sprung the great Phulkiaii families of Patiala, Nabha, and Ji'nd, and the Barar family of r'aridkot.
59 The .Sidhu trace their origin to Jaisal, a Bhatti Rajput and founder of Jaisalmer, who was di-iven
60 from his kingdom by a successful rebellion and took refuge with Prithi Raj, Cliauhan, the last
61 Hindu King of Delili. His descendants overran Hissar and Sirsa and gave to the latter tract the
62 name of Bhattiana. Among them was Khiwa, who married a Jat woman of the Ghaggar, and
63 had by her Sidhu, the ancestor of the tribe. Sidhu had four sons, Devi, Biir, feiir, and Rupach,
64 and from Dlnil, the descendant of Bur, is sprung the Banir tribe. The pure Bhatti Rajputs of
65 rhattiana still admit their relationship with the Sidhu and Barar. The early history of the tribes