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<p>‎<span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Caste No. 123</span></span></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 20:08, 1 May 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 103:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 103:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Khanzadahs are to the Meos what the Rajputs are to the Jats.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Khanzadahs are to the Meos what the Rajputs are to the Jats.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>See[[The Gujjar (Punjab)&#160; ]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>See[[ The Gujjar (Punjab )&#160; ]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>‎<span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Caste No. 123</span></span></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 20:06, 1 May 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 103:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 103:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Khanzadahs are to the Meos what the Rajputs are to the Jats.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Khanzadahs are to the Meos what the Rajputs are to the Jats.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>See[[The Gujjar&#160; ]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>See[[The Gujjar <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(Punjab) </ins> ]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 07:09, 1 May 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 102:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 102:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>the Hindu Rajput or son of a Raja ; and there can be little doubt that the &#160;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>the Hindu Rajput or son of a Raja ; and there can be little doubt that the &#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Khanzadahs are to the Meos what the Rajputs are to the Jats.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Khanzadahs are to the Meos what the Rajputs are to the Jats.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">See[[The Gujjar&#160; ]]</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>Created page with &quot; {| class=&quot;wikitable&quot; |- |colspan=&quot;0&quot;|&lt;div style=&quot;font-size:100%&quot;&gt; This article is an extract from &lt;br/&gt; PANJAB CASTES &lt;br/&gt; SIR DENZIL CHARLES JELF IBBETSON, K.C. S.I. &lt;br...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div> {| class=&quot;wikitable&quot;<br /> |-<br /> |colspan=&quot;0&quot;|&lt;div style=&quot;font-size:100%&quot;&gt;<br /> This article is an extract from &lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> PANJAB CASTES &lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> SIR DENZIL CHARLES JELF IBBETSON, K.C. S.I. &lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> Being a reprint of the chapter on &lt;br/&gt;<br /> The Races, Castes and Tribes of &lt;br/&gt;<br /> the People in the Report on the &lt;br/&gt;<br /> Census of the Panjab published &lt;br/&gt;<br /> in ''' 1883 ''' by the late Sir Denzil &lt;br/&gt;<br /> Ibbetson, KCSI &lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> Lahore : &lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> Printed by the Superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab, &lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> 1916. &lt;br/&gt;<br /> ''Indpaedia is an archive. It neither agrees nor disagrees ''&lt;br/&gt; <br /> ''with the contents of this article.''<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> |} <br /> [[Category:India|K]]<br /> [[Category:Communities|K]]<br /> <br /> =Caste No. 123=<br /> <br /> The Khanzadahs are practically <br /> confined to Gurgaon so far as the Panjab is concerned. Captain Powlett <br /> describes them thus : — <br /> <br /> They are the Mewati Chiefs of the Persian historians, who were probably the representatives <br /> of the ancient Lords of Mewat. Those Mewatis are called Khanzadahs, a race which, <br /> though Musalman like the Meo was and is socially far superior to the Meos, and has no love for <br /> Them ; but who in times past have united with them in the raids and insurrections for which <br /> Mewat .vas so famous, and which made it a thorn in the side of the Dehli Emperors. In fact, the <br /> expression Mewati usually refers to the ruling class, while Meo designates the lower orders. The <br /> latter term is evidently not of modern origin, though it is not, I believe, met with in history ; and <br /> the former is, I think, now unusual, Khanzadah having taken its place. <br /> <br /> The Khanzadahs are numerically insignificant, and they cannot now be reckoned among the <br /> anstocracy. In social rank they are far above the Meos, and though probably of more recent <br /> Hindu extraction, they are better Musalmans. They observe no Hindu festivals, and will not <br /> acknowledge that they pay any respect to Hindu shrines. Rut Brahmins take part in their <br /> marriage contracts, and they observe some Hindu marriage ceremonies. Though generally as <br /> poor and ignorant as the Meos, they unlike the latter say their prayers, and do not let their <br /> women work in the fields. <br /> <br /> They are not first rate agriculturists, the seclusion of their women giving them a disadvan<br /> tage beside most other castes. Some have emigrated and taken to trade in the Gangetic cities, <br /> but these have no connection now with the original Khanzadah country. Those who have not <br /> abandoned the traditions of their clan are often glad of military service, and about fifty are in <br /> British regiments. In the service of the Ulwar State there are many. There are 26 Khanzadah <br /> villages in the State, in most of which the [iroprietors themselves work in the field and follow the <br /> plough. <br /> <br /> The term Khanzadah is probably derived from Khanazad, for it appears that Bahadur Nahar <br /> the first of the race mentioned in the Pei-siau histories, associated himself with the turbulent <br /> *' slaves of Firoz Shah after the death of the latter, and, being a pervert, would contemptuously <br /> receive the name of Khanazad (slave) from bis brethren. The Khanzadahs themselves indig<br /> nantly repudiate this derivation, and say the word is Khan Jadu(or Lord .jadu), and was intend<br /> ed to render still nobler the name of the princely Rajput race from which they came. Con<br /> verted Jadus were called by the old Musalman historians Mewatis, a term Chand applies to a <br /> Mewat chief of the Lunar race, of which race the Jadu Maharaja of Karauli Calls himself the <br /> head.<br /> <br /> To this Mr. Channing adds : — <br /> Khanzadas are a race who were fovmorly of much more importance than at present ; they <br /> claim to have been formerly Jadu Rajputs, and that their ancestors Lakhan Pal and Sumitr <br /> Pal, who dwelt at Tahangarh in Bharatpur, were converted to Islam in the reign of Firoz Shah <br /> (A.D. 1351 to 138S), who gave Lakhan Pal the name of Xahir Khan and Sumitr Pal the name of <br /> Bahadur Khan, and in recognition of their high descent called them Khanzadahs and made them <br /> bear rule in Mewat. At first they are said to have lived at Sarahta near Tijara, and afterwards <br /> according to tradition, they possessed 1,484 village,-. However this m;iy be, there is no doubt <br /> that they were the ruling race in Mewat duwn to the time of Rahnr ; since then they have <br /> gradually declined in importance, and now in this district own only a few villages near Nnh and <br /> to the north of Firozpur. Trace&gt; of their former importance exist at Sahna, Bund-i, and Kotila. <br /> Kotila was one of their chief fortresses ; the village is situated in a small valley, wholly <br /> surrounded by the hill, except where a small funnel-like pass give entrance to it. <br /> <br /> In front of <br /> this pass is the Kotila jhil, and when this is filled with water the only road to the pass lies <br /> along a narrow strip of land between the lake and the hill. The remains of a breastwork along <br /> the face of the hill and across the mouth of the pass still exists while on the hill above the <br /> village is a small ruined fort. The village now belongs to Meos. Some of the buildings bear <br /> witness to its former greater importance. I have a suspicion that they are more intimately <br /> connected than they acknowledge with the Meos, whom they seem to me to resemble in personal <br /> appearance. They do not ordinarily intermarry with Meos, but the Meo inhabitants of five <br /> villages in.the Firozpur tahsil professs to have been formerly Khanzadals, and to have become Meos <br /> by intermarriage. Their traditions also, which point to Sarahta as their ancient home, agree, I <br /> think it will be found, with those of more than one clan of Mcos. If my supposition that the <br /> Meos are converted Minas is correct, I am inclined to suspect that the Khanzadas are the repre<br /> sentatives of the noble class among the aboriginal population. Tod mentions an Asil or un<br /> mixed class among the Minas known as Mainas. <br /> <br /> The Khanzadahs of Gurgaou have returned themselves as Jadubansi in <br /> the column for clan, and they commonly say that this is their only got. <br /> Khanzadah, or the son of a Khan is precisely the Musalman equivalent to <br /> the Hindu Rajput or son of a Raja ; and there can be little doubt that the <br /> Khanzadahs are to the Meos what the Rajputs are to the Jats.</div>

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