1 174
2 PANJAB CASTES.
3 Kharkais.
4 (Small numbers omitted in the details, but iiiehuled
5 in the totals.)
6 DiSTWCIS.
7 KnAREALS.
8 Klmrral.
9 Jat.
10 Rajput.
11 Total.
12 Sirsa
13 Amritsar ...
14 Lahore
15 Gujn'mwala
16 Firozpur ...
17 Multdn ...
18 Jhan^
19 Montgomery
20 Derail Ismail Khau
21 Bahawalpur
22 Hritish Territory
23 Native States
24 Province ...
25 "70
26 2,492
27 489
28 15,643
29 18,839
30 6
31 18,845
32 35
33 1,001
34 5,992
35 3,070
36 1,441
37 364
38 673
39 2,361
40 1,300
41 237
42 18,582
43 287
44 18,819
45 2,026
46 "35
47 4,470
48 278
49 500
50 2,054
51 3,444
52 2,042
53 14,242
54 2,042
55 16,284
56 2,061
57 1,001
58 6,097
59 7,540
60 1,719
61 3,356
62 3,216
63 21,448
64 1,300
65 2,279
66 51,663
67 2,285
68 53,948
69 470. The Kharral (Caste No. 77).— The KLarrals would appear to be
70 a true Rajput tribe,
71 though a very consider-
72 able portion of them
73 have been returned as
74 Jat. The figures in the
75 margin show the total
76 mimber returned under
77 the several headings of
78 Jat, Rajput, and Khar-
79 ral. Of the Rajput
80 Kharrals of Babawalpui-
81 1,61.3 have returned
82 their main tribe as Bhatti.
83 The few Khavrals of
84 Jalandhar are tliere re-
85 cognised as Rajputs, and
86 tbe Kharrals of Mont-
87 gomer}' claim descent
88 from Raja Karan. They
89 are found in large num-
90 bers only along the
91 valley of the Ravi, from
92 its junction with the Chanab to the boundary between Lahore and Mont-
93 gomery ; while a few have spread up the Deg river into the Lahore and
94 Gujranwala bar, and smaller numbers are found all along tbe Satluj valley
95 as high up as Firozj)ur. The trilies of this portion of the Ravi are divided
96 into two classes, the Groat Ravi tribes and the Little Ravi tribes. The
97 former are pastoral rather than agricultural, and include the Kharrals,
98 Kathias, and many of the great tribes of Mahomedan Jats. They look down
99 upon the little Ravi tribes who live within their limits, and who are agri-
100 cultural rather than pastoral, consisting of Arains, Karabohs, and similar
101 tribes common in the Eastern Panjali. The great Ravi tribes are notorious
102 for their projiensity to cattle-stealing, and among then a young man is not
103 allowed to wear a turban or to marry a wife till he shows by stealing a
104 buffalo that he is able to support her, while a headman who has not a number
105 of dependants ready to steal for or with him is popularly kuown as " an
106 " orphau.'^
107 471. Among the tribes of the great Ravi the Kharrals are the most
108 northernly and one of the most important. They are themselves divided into
109 two factions, the upper Ravi and lower Ravi, the head-quarters of the latter
110 being at Kot Kamalia. The two are at bitter feud, and the only tie between
111 them is their hatred of their common enemy, the Sial Rajputs of Jhang.
112 The Kamalia Kharrals rose to some prominence in the time of Alamgir, and
113 still hold remains of grants then made them, but the upper Kharrals are now
114 the more powerful branch of the two. The Kharrals have ever been notorious
115 for turbulence, and Mr. Parser's Montgomery Report contains details of
116 their doings before and under Sikh rule, while the histoiy of the family is
117 narrated in full at pages 5 U9//' of Griffin's Pimjdft Cliiejs. They trace their
118 origin fi'om one Bhupa a descendant of Raja Karan, who settled at Uchh and
119 was there converted by Makhdam Shah Jahania. 1 From Uchh they moved