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Deol is a Sikh Jat surname native to the Punjab region of India.
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The Ramgarhia are a community of Sikhs from the Punjab region of northwestern India, encompassing members of the Lohar (blacksmiths) and Tarkhan (carpenters) subgroups.
Sidhu is a Punjabi Jat clan found in Punjab.
Randhawa is a Jat clan found in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. The Randhawa name has special significance in the history of the Sikh faith, the first appointed Granthi was a Randhawa There are also adherents of Hinduism and Islam belonging to the Randhawa clan.
Jat Sikh or Jatt Sikh is an ethnoreligious group, a subgroup of the Jat people whose traditional religion is Sikhism, originating from the Indian subcontinent. They are one of the dominant communities in the Punjab, India owing to their large land holdings. They form an estimated 20–25% of the population of the Indian state of Punjab. They form at least half of the Sikh population in Punjab, with some sources estimating them to be about 60–66% appx. two-third of the Sikh population.
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There was a preponderance of Jats (e.g. Randhawa, Khera, Dhillon, and Pannu sub-castes) ...
- ↑ Hanks, Patrick; Lenarčič, Simon (2022). Dictionary of American family names. Peter McClure. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 719. ISBN 978-0-19-024511-5.
Indian (Punjab): Sikh name based on the name of a Jat clan from the ancient Pannam dynasty.
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