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PANJAB CASTES <br/><br />
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SIR DENZIL CHARLES JELF IBBETSON, K.C. S.I. <br/><br />
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The Races, Castes and Tribes of <br/><br />
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=Caste No. 58=<br />
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The figures of Table VIII A under <br />
the head Khokhar only represent a fraction of the Khokhars in the Panjab. <br />
The Khokhars are ordinarily considered a Rajput tribe, and most of the <br />
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Khokhars of the <br />
districts have so <br />
ed themselves, <br />
of the Khokhars <br />
western districts again, <br />
and all those of the <br />
frontier, have been re<br />
turned as Jats ; while <br />
only in the Rawalpindi <br />
and Multan divisions <br />
are separate figures <br />
shown for the Khokhar <br />
caste. How far this in<br />
clusion is due to Kho<br />
khars having actually <br />
returned themselves as <br />
Rajput or Jat by caste <br />
and Khokhar by tribe, <br />
and how far to the action <br />
of the divisional offices, <br />
I cannot say exactly till <br />
the detailed clan tables <br />
are ready. <br />
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But from <br />
local enquiry it would <br />
appear that Khokhars <br />
did very generally return <br />
themselves as Jats or <br />
Rajputs, especially the <br />
latter, and Mr. Thomson <br />
tells me that in Pind <br />
Dadan Khan the Jat <br />
Khokhars are said to be <br />
entirely distinct from <br />
the Rajput Khokhars. The figures in the margin show those who are returned <br />
as Khokhar, Rajput Khokhar, and Jat Khokhar respectively. In the east of <br />
the Panjab Khokhars appear to be admittedly of Rajput origin, though in <br />
Jalandhar at least they are said to intermarry rather with then' own clan, <br />
Shekhs, Awans, and the like, than with their Rajput neighbours. But in the <br />
Avest the Khokhars have set up a claim to be descended from Muhammad the <br />
eldest son of tlutb Shah of Ghaznl, the traditional ancestor of the Awans ; <br />
and the claim Is often admitted by the Awans themselves, though of com'se <br />
as mythical as the Awnn's own story. Thus no fewer than 18,388 men, of <br />
whom the detail has already been given in section 466_, have returned them<br />
selves as Awan by caste and Khokhar by clan, and should probably be counted <br />
as Khokhars and added to the figures given above. Mr. Barkley points out <br />
that the annals of Jaisalmer given by Major Tod narrate the quarrels <br />
between the Khokhars and the Bhattis of Jaisalmer long before the time of <br />
Mahomot ; though I should add that Major Tod thinks Khokhar may be a <br />
misreading for Gakkhar. Major Tod gives Khokra as one of the clans of the <br />
Rathor Rajputs. In Bahjiwalpur I find that 2,4-12 of the Khokhar Rajputs <br />
have returned their main tribe as Bhatti. On the whole it would appear <br />
most probable that they are really Rajputs^ perliaps not of the purest descent ; <br />
while the low repute in which Rajputs are held on the frontier would account <br />
for the rise of the claim to Qureshi origin, which would quickly spread among <br />
a Musalman tribe. In Sirsa, where the prohibition against marriage out of <br />
the caste is very strictly observed, the Khokhars intermarry with the local <br />
Rajput tribes. Sir Lepel GrifRn indeed separates the Khokhar Rajputs from <br />
those Khokhars who claim kindred origin with the Awans; but it is doubtful <br />
whether this is allowable, for the Awan tradition is apparently spreading, <br />
even among those Khokhars who are still recognised as Rajputs throughout <br />
the country side. At the same time the Khokhars are so widely spread, and <br />
have been at one time or another so powerful that Khokhar is almost as <br />
favourite a name as Bhatti for the clans of the lower castes in the Panjab ; <br />
and it may be that there is a distinct Khokhar caste apart from the Khokhar <br />
RajputS just as both are certainly distinct from the Khokhar Chnhras. <br />
Colonel Davies notes .that many of the social customs of the Khokhars of <br />
Shahpur denote Hindu origin ; and this would be quite decisive against the <br />
Qutb Shahi myth. <br />
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The Khokhars are most numerous along the valleys of the Jahlam <br />
and Chanab^ and especially in the Jhang and Shahpur districts ; but they are <br />
also found, though in smaller numbers, on the lower Indus and the Satluj, <br />
and especially in Lahore, and also all along the foot of the hills from the <br />
Jahlam to the Sathluj. Pind Dadan Khan is said to have taken its name from <br />
a Khokhar Chief who founded it and was Raja of those parts in the time of <br />
Jahangir ; and the history of the family, which at one time possessed some <br />
importance, and of the struggles between the Janjuas and the Khokhars for <br />
the possession of the tract, is told at pages 589^ of Griffin''s Panjab Chiefs. <br />
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In Jhang too they once ruled over an extensive tract lying east of the Jahlam, <br />
The Khokhars of Gujrat and Sialkot have a tradition that they were origin<br />
ally settled at Garh Karanah, which they cannot identify,^ and were ejected <br />
by Tamerlane ; and that they then went to Jammu, whence they spread along <br />
the hills ; and the concentration of the Khokhars of the plains on the Jahlam <br />
and the Chanab, and 'the wide diffusion of those of the sub-niontane tract, <br />
lend some colour to the theory that they si^road downwards from the hills, <br />
and not upwards from the south. In Akbar''s time the Khokhars were shown <br />
as the principal tribe of the Dasuva parganah of Hushyarpur ; and the <br />
Mahomedan historians tell us that the Khokhars held Lahore and were power<br />
ful in the Upper Bari Locih at the time of Taimurs invasion. <br />
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The Khokhars of Shahpur are said to be split up into innumerable clans, <br />
among whom tbe Nissowana, notorious for their thieving propensities and <br />
generally lawless character, are alone important ; but in Jhang Mr. Steedman <br />
describes the Khokhars as among the best of the agricultural classes, hard<br />
working, thrifty, and not given to crime. <br />
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1 Mr. Steedman suggests Koh Kerana, lying south of Slmlipur, in the Jhang district. <br />
The English Editors generally suggest Gakkhar as an emendation : probably because they do <br />
not know the word Khokhar,</div>Pdewan