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PANJAB CASTES
SIR DENZIL CHARLES JELF IBBETSON, K.C. S.I.
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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. 
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=Caste No. 182=

The Khattars are a tribe which
claims kinship with the Awans, and to be, like them and the western Khokhars,
descended from one of the sons of Qutb Shah Qureshi of Ghazni. But the
Awans do not always admit the relationship, and the Khattars are said often
to claim Rajput origin. Mr. Steodman however accepts their Awan origin,
and says that an Awan admits it, but looks upon the Khattars as an inferior
section of the tribe to whom he will not give his daughters in marriage.
Sir Lcpol Griffin, who relates the history of the principal Khattar families
at pages 561 to 569 of his Panjab Chiefs, thinks that they were originally
inhabitants of Khorasan who came to India with the early Mahomedan
invaders. But Colonel Craeroft notes that the Khattars of Rawalpindi still
retain marriage customs which point to an Indian origin ; and they them
selves have a tradition of having been driven out of their territory on the Indus
near Attak into Afghanistan, and returning thence with the armies of
Muhammad Ghori.

General Cunningham, on the other hand, would identify
them with a branch of the Kator, Cidarite?, or little Yuchi?, from whom the Gujars
also are descended and whose early history is related in section 480. {Arehæological Reports, Vol. N, page 80) . They now hold the tract known by their
name which extends on both sides of the Kala Chitta Pahar from the Indus to the
boundary of the Rawalpindi tahsil, and from Usman Katar on the north to the
Khair-i-Murat hills on the south, and which they are said to have taken from
Gujars and Awans. The figures of Table Vlll-iV are very imperfect, as the
Khattars of Rawalpindi have returned themselves as Awans.

Under the caste
heading of Awan no fewer than 11,278 persons have shown their clan as
Khattar, of whom all but 362 are in the Rawalpindi district, thus bringing
up the total numbers for the Province to 12,523. Colonel Craeroft writes:
The Khattars enjoy an unenviable notoriety in regard to crime. Their
tract has always been one in which heavy crime has flourished ; they are bad
agriculturists, extravagant in their habits, keep hawks and horses, and are
often backward in paying their revenue. They do not allow their daughters
to inherit excepting in cases of intermarriage with members of the family
and even then only for some .special reason.On this Stecdman notes
Since then they have become more civilised and less addicted to deeds of
violence. Socially the Khattars hold an intermediate place, ranking below
Gakkhars, Awans, Ghebas, Jodras, and other high class Rajputs.

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