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2 178 PANJAB CASTES.
3 . 475. Mr. Purser notes tliat tbey are divided into two trilios, one of which
4 claim to be C'hanhau and the other Punwiir Rajputs, and he notes theii- alleged
5 advent from Piik Pattan, but not their previous migration from Dehli. If
6 they ever did move from Dehli to the Montgomery district, it can hardly
7 have been since the Ghaggar ceased to fertilize the intervening country, and
8 the date of the migration must have been at least some centuries back ; and
9 the Dogars of Hissar came to those parts from the Panjiib, probably from the
10 Satluj across the Su'sa district. The Dogars of Lahore and J^ivozpiu- are
11 essentially a riverside trilie, being found only on the river banks : they bear
12 the very worst reputation, and appear from the passage quoted above to have
13 retained till quite lately some at least of the habits of a wild tribe. I suspect
14 that their origin was probaldy in the Satluj valley. They appear to have
15 entered the Firozpur district about 1760 A.D., and during the next forty years
16 to have possessed themselves of a very considerable portion of the district,
17 while their turljulence rendered them almost independent of the Sikh Govern-
18 ment. In 1808 we recognised the Dogar State of Firozpiu-, and took it under
19 oui- protection against Ran jit Singh ; liut it lapsed in i833.
20 The Rajput origin of the Dogars is probably very doubtful, and is
21 strenously denied liy their Rajput neighbours, though I believe that Dogar, or
22 perhaps Doghar, is used in some parts of the Province to denote one of mixed
23 blood. Another derivation of tlie name Is doffhgur or milkman. The Dogars
24 seem to be originally a pastoral rather than an agricultural tribe, and still
25 to retain a strong liking for cattle, whether their own or other people's.
26 They are often classed with Gujars, whom they much resemble in their
27 habits. In Lahore and Firozpur they are notorious cattle-thieves, but
28 fm-ther north they seem to have settled down
29 and become peaceful hiisbandmen. They are not
30 good cultivators. Their soeial standing seems
31 to be aliout that of a low-class Rajput ; they
32 are practically all Jlusalmans. The Dogars have
33 returned hardly any large clans ; some of the
34 largest are shown in the margin.
35 476. The Ror (Caste No. 55).— The real seat of the Panjab Rors is in the
36 great d/uU jungles south of Thanesar on the borders of the Kanial and
37 Ambala districts, where they hold a chaitrdsi nominally consisting of 84
38 villages, of which the village of Aniin, where the Pandavas aiTanged their forces
39 before their last fight with the Kauravas, is the tika or head village. But the
40 Rors have spread down the Western Jamna Canal into the lower parts of
41 Karnal and into Jind in considerable numbers. They are said also to hold 12
42 villages beyond the Ganges. They are fine stalwart men, of very much the
43 same type as the Jats, whom they almost equal as husbandmen, their women
44 also working in the fields. They are more peaceful and less grasping in their
45 habits than the Jats, and are consequently readily admitted as tenants where
46 the latter would be kept at arm's length.
47 Of their origin I can say nothing certain. They have the same story as
48 the Aroras, of their having been Rajputs who escaped the fiu-y of Paras Ram
49 by slating that then- easte was avr or "another." The Aroras are often
50 called Roras in the east of the Punjab ; yet I can hardly believe that the frank
51 and stalwart Ror is of the same origin as the Arora. The Amin men say that
52 they came from Sambhal in Muradabad ; but this may only be in order to
53 D09AR
54 CLAXS.
55 Mattar
56 ...
57 5,325
58 Cbi'jia
59 2,268
60 Tagi-a
61 ...
62 2,232
63 Mahu
64 1,S92
65 Chokia
66 1,627