Khagga

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This article is an extract from PANJAB CASTES SIR DENZIL CHARLES JELF IBBETSON, K.C. S.I. Being a reprint of the chapter on The Races, Castes and Tribes of the People in the Report on the Census of the Panjab published in 1883 by the late Sir Denzil Ibbetson, KCSI Lahore : Printed by the Superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab, 1916. Indpaedia is an archive. It neither agrees nor disagrees with the contents of this article.

Khaggas

The Khaggas are another tribe which I have classed as Shekh, but had better have kept separate. The numbers returned are shown in the margin. But here again many of them have probably returned themselves as Shekhs or Qureshi. Mr. Purser thus describes them : The Khaggas came to the Montgomery district after the conquest of Multan by Ran jit Singh. They claim to be Qureshi, and name as the first Khagga, Jalal-ul-din, disciple of Muhammaxl Irak. Khagga is said to mean a peculiar kind of fish ; and the name was given to Jalal-ud-din by his spiritual teacher on the occasion of his rescuing a boat over taken by a storm.