1 JAT, RAJPUT, AND ALLIED CASTES. 161
2 The Nara (No. 12'>. — The Naru are with the exception perhaps of the Manj, the most widely
3 spread of the Hill Rajpiits ; but their head-quartera are the districts of Jalandhar and Hushyar-
4 pnr. The Nam would appear to differ in their accounts of their oivn origin. Those of Hushyar-
5 pur, many or most of whom are still Hindu, and those of the adjoining northern portions of
6 Jalandhar say that they are Chandrahansi and oanie from tlie hills ; while those of the east of
7 Jalandhar about Philaur, who are all JIusalman?, say their ancestor was a Ragbbansi Eajput who
8 came from Ajudhia, entered the service of Shahah-nl-di'n Ghori, and eventually settled near
9 Philaur. A third story makes the common ancestor a son of a Raja of Jaipur or Jodhpvir, who was
10 converted in the time of If ahmud Ghaznavi, and settled at Bajwara in Hushyai'pur. The Naru
11 held the Hariana tract on the Jalandhar and Husliyarpur border till the Sikhs dispossessed them.
12 The original settlement of the Jalandhar Karu was llan. a name which, as Mr. Barkley points
13 out, suggests an origin from eastern Hindustan or Central India. Of the Hushyarpur Naru
14 1,279 have also shown themselves as Kilelii, 556 as Manha-s, and 903 as Gondal.
15 The Ghorewaha (No. 13). — The head-quarters of the Ghorewaha are the Jalandhar district,
16 of which they occupy the eastern comer, and are found in small numbers in all the
17 adjoining districts. To the west of them are the Manj. and to the north of them the Naru.
18 They are almost all Mnsalman. They are Kachwaha Rajputs, descendants of Kash, the second son
19 of Rama. They say that Riija Man, si-xth in descent from Kash, had two sons Kachwaha and
20 Hawaha. and that they are nf tlie lineage of Hawaha. The two brothers met Shahab-ul-din Ghari ( !)
21 with an offering of a horse, and received in return as large a territory as they could ride round in
22 a day ; hence their name. The division of their country took place while they were yet Hindus,
23 so that their settlement in their present tract was probably an early one. The Rahon Ghorewaha,
24 who are still Hindus, would seem to have immigrated more lately than the rest of the tribe, as
25 they trace their origin from Jaipur, and their genealogists still live in Kota and Bundi in
26 Ra jpiltana. Mr. Barkley is disposed to put the G horewaha conquest of their present territory at
27 some five centuries ago. In the time of Akhar their possessions would seem to have been more
28 extensive than they are now.
29 The Manj (No. 14)'. — The Manj are the most widely distributed of all the sub-montane
30 Rajputs, if oirr figures are to be accepted as correct. They hold the south-western portion of the
31 Jalandhar and the north-western portion of the Li'idhiaua district, and are to be found in all the
32 adjoining districts and States. There are also some 9,000 of them shown in the Pindi district.
33 These last are the Alpial of that district who have returned themselves aa Manj Alpial ; hut
34 wliether they are of the same stock as the Manj of Ludliiana and Jalandhar, I cannot say. The
35 Manj say that they are Bhatti Riijputs, and descended from Raja Salvahan, father of Raja
36 Rasalu of Si'alkot." Some 600 years'ago Shekh Chachu and Shekh Kilehi, two Manj Kajpiits, are
37 said to have settled at Hatur in the south-west of Ludhiana, whence their descendants spread into
38 the neighbouring country ; and the Jalandhar traditions refer their conquest of the tract to the
39 time of Ala-nl-din Khilji. As however tliey state that Shekh Chachu was converted by Makhdum
40 Shah Jahania of Uchh, who died in 1383 A.D., it would appear that if the tradition has any
41 foundation, Ala-ul-din Saiyad must be meant. After the dissolution of the Dehli Empire the
42 Manj Rais of Talwandi and Raikot ruled over a very extensive territory south of the Satluj, till
43 dispossessed of it by the Ahluwalia Sikhs and Ranji't Singh ; and even earlier than this the Manj
44 Nawahs of Kot Isa Khan bad attained considerable importance under the Emperoi-s. North of
45 the Satluj the ilanj never succeeded in establishing a principality ; but they held a large tract
46 of country in the south-west of the Jalandhar district about Taiwan, Nakodar, and Malsian, and
47 held much of it in _;flff»r under the Mughals, but were dispossessed by Tara Singh Gheba and the
48 Sindhanwala Sikhs. Tlie Manj are now all Mnsalman, though many were still Hindu after the
49 time of Shekh Chachu. Their genealogists live in Patiiila, as do those of the Bhatti of Jalandhar.
50 In the Aj/iii-i-Aklari the Manj are wrongly shown as Main, a title which is said to belong
51 properly to the Ghorewaha of LxVlhi.'ina.
52 The Taon (No. 15).— The Taoni are also Bhatti and descendants of Raja Salvahan, whose
53 grandson Rai Tan is their eponymous ancestor One of his descendants, Rai Amha, is said to have
54 built Ambala. They occupy "the low hills and sub-montane in the north of Ambala district
55 including the KalsiaState, and some of the adjoining Patiiila territory. They are said to have
56 occupied their present ahode for 1,800 years.
57 CASTES ALLIED TO THE RAJPUTS.
58 458. The Thakar, Rathi, and Rawat (Caste Nos. 60, 39, and 82).— The
59 figures for these castes are given in Abstract No. 71 on page 219.* The Rawat
60 has already been described in section 4 -IS. The Thakar (or, as I believe it
61 more properly should be, Thakkar) and Rathi, are the lower cksses of Hill
62 ' For the greater part of the description of the Rajputs of the Jalandhar district, I am
63 indebted to the kindness of Mr. Barkley, who has given me access to a most valuable collection of
64 MS. notes made when he was Deputy Commissioner of that district.
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