Sahota (also known as Sihota or Sahotey) is a Jat agricultural clan native to the Punjab region and hilly regions of India and Pakistan. [1] [2] as well as Jalandhar district of Punjab. [3] [4] During the early 16th century, in the southern region of Doaba, five brothers from the Sahota clan founded and established the village Kuleta (presently known as Bara Pind) [5] alongside villages such as Dhuleta, Rurka Khurd, and Atta. [6]
Okara District, is a district of Punjab, Pakistan. It became a separate district in 1982, prior to that it was part of Sahiwal District. The Multan Road connects the district capital, Okara with Lahore 110 km away and Faisalabad is 100 km.
Chak, a Punjabi word, is the land revenue settlement/assessment circle marking a contiguous block of land. The word Chak comes from Chakar referring to a wheel in Punjabi, specifically a wheel associated with a water well. Historically there was one water well allotted per village and every village number allotted as per water-well wheel. Now the individual chak circles have come to be associated with the name of the village founded within the revenue circle. Chak circles are based on the British Raj era revenue collection system. To enhance the government revenue during the British Raj, new canals were built to bring the barani (rainfed) areas under cultivation by introducing the irrigation to the bangar (upland) areas of Punjab region. Block of contiguous land irrigated by the specific Rajwaha were given a unique chak number each. The migrant farmers were brought in to settle into those newly irrigated areas around the core of new villages [which started out as dhanis]. Those new villages were called by the same name as their corresponding irrigation circle chak number. Government left it to those residents to give "chaks" a proper village name later. In due time, the term "chak" became synonymous with the term "village".
Phillaur is a town and a municipal council as well as a tehsil in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab. The city is situated 20 km from Ludhiana, 45 km from Jalandhar and 140 km from Amritsar. It is situated on the border of the Doaba and Puadh regions. Thr city was Founded by a Hindu Jat Maharaja Chaudhary Phul Rai Sanghera, during the 12-13th century to 1947 as Kingdom of Phulnagar, but later came to be known as Phillaur.
Faridkot district is a district lying in the South-Western part of Punjab, India with Faridkot city as the district headquarters.
Doaba, also known as Bist Doab or the Jalandhar Doab, is the region of Punjab, India that lies between the Beas River and the Sutlej River. People of this region are given the demonym "Doabia". The dialect of Punjabi spoken in Doaba is called "Doabi". The term "Doaba" or "Doab" is derived from Persian دو آب meaning "land of two rivers". The river Sutlej separates Doaba from the Malwa region to its south and the river Beas separates Doaba from the Majha region to its north.
Mahilpur is a city and a Nagar Panchayat in Hoshiarpur district in the Indian state Punjab. It is situated on Hoshiarpur to Garhshankar stretch of State Highway 24. It is famous for the game of football in the region. Mahilpur is connected by road to nearby districts, states and towns such as Jaijon, Jalandhar, Pathankot, Mohali, Chandigarh. Mahilpur is a development block. Mahilpur block has 140 villages in it. It as also known as the soccer-town of India given the craze of football among the people of Mahilpur town and its surrounding villages. It belongs to the Sirowal area in the Doaba region of Punjab. Mahilpur had its first bank as Punjab National Bank in 1946 which operates two branches in the city. Mahilpur is famous for mangoes in the region.
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.
Dhani or Thok is a type of hamlet, the smallest conglomeration of houses, in the sandy Bagar region of the northwestern states of Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab in India. Per the Census of India, 70% of Indians live in villages. 80% of the villages have a population of less than 1000 people and each consists of a cluster of hamlets. Most dhanis are nucleated settlements, while others are more dispersed. A dhani could be as small as one isolated house for a single family or a small cluster of several houses which could grow in number with successive generations, and even become a village by itself. All families living in a dhani are relatives or at least are of the same caste. An isolated collection of several dhanis, which could be few hundred meters apart, constitutes a gram panchayat village community. A typical dhani in the arid zone of Rajasthan is a cluster of huts with a boundary made of dried shrubs around it and with owners' livestock such as goats, sheep and camels inside the bara. Dhani are atypically mud huts in Rajasthan. Houses in dani nowadays are made of modern brick and mortar, specially in affluent higher-per-capita-income states of Haryana and Punjab, and some richer families of Rajasthan.
Rurka Kalan is a village in the Tehsil Phillaur, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. Khurd and Kalan Persian language word which means small and Big respectively when two villages have same name then it is distinguished as Kalan means Big and Khurd means Small with Village Name.
Garha are a Muslim community in the subcontinent. They live pre-dominantly in the states of Punjab, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan.They live pre-dominantly in the city of [Saharanpur] [Deoband] Many villages
Buddha Goraya / Budha Goraya / Budha Guraya is a town and Union Council in Nowshera Virkan Tehsil, Gujranwala District, Punjab, Pakistan. The land of buddha goraya produce many great personalities like Ch Ziaullah Goraya, Ch Attaullah goraya(Retired headmaster and a recognized farmer), and bureaucrates from their family mainly Ch Khalid Javed Goraya and Ch Khizar Zahoor Goraya and DSP CH Faisal goraya.
Chak No. 4/G.D. is a village in Okara District near Renala Khurd in Pakistan. It is located in a fertile area just under 13 kilometers north of the city across the Lower Bari Doab canal. It is the main village on the Chuchak Road and is also a union council center.
Khādir or Khadar and Bangar, Bāngur or Bhangar are terms used in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi in the Indo-Gangetic plains of North India and Pakistan to differentiate between two types of river plains and alluvial soils. Bangur and Khadir areas are commonly found in the doab regions. Some villages may have both Khadar and Bangar areas within their revenue boundaries. Bhangar soils are less fertile as they are above flood level whereas Khadar soils are more fertile as they are below the flood level. Bhanger is full of kankers while khadar soil is composed of fine silt and clay. It is fertile land as it contains alluvial soil deposited by rivers.
Behak Mekan is a small town located in the Sargodha District of Punjab, Pakistan. It was established during the British Empire era. The town is situated 16.5 kilometres (10.3 mi) from the city of Sargodha and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away from Dhreema. Due to its strategic location, the British Royal Air Force constructed an airstrip near "godhay wala" which became later significant to the Pakistan Air Force after the independence of Pakistan.
The Budhal are a clan of the Golra division of the Awan tribe,
The Jat people, also spelt Jaat, Zuṭṭ and Jatt, are an iranian tribe traditionally agricultural community in Iraq, Iran, Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in historical Zuṭṭistān, was an eastern province of Persian empire, Situated in current Pakistan. Many Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subsequently into the Delhi Territory, northeastern Rajputana, and the western Gangetic Plain in the 17th and 18th centuries. Of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh faiths, they are now found mostly in the Indian states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan and the Pakistani regions of Sindh, Punjab and AJK.
Atta is a village in Phillaur tehsil of Jalandhar District of Punjab State, India. It is situated on national highway 1 and located 2.2 km away from Goraya, 18 km from Phillaur, 45.8 km from Jalandhar, and 112 km from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by a Sarpanch who is an elected representative of the village.
Rurka Khurd is a large size village in Phillaur tehsil of Jalandhar District of Punjab State, India. Kalan is Persian language word which means Big and Khurd is Persian word which means small when two villages have same name then it is distinguished with Kalan means Big and Khurd means Small used with Village Name. It is located 1.6 km away from postal head office Goraya, 16.7 km from Phillaur, 35 km from district headquarter Jalandhar and 129 km from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by a sarpanch who is an elected representative of village as per Panchayati raj (India). The man in the photograph is native to this village. It was his first time getting his picture taken as well. He is a cattle herder. His name is Jattmandeep Singh and has a rich knowledge of the village
Mahil Gaila in the district of Jullundur, Punjab, India is the ancestral village of the Mahal family.
Ghumman or Ghuman is a Jat clan of Punjabis, found in Pakistan and India, mainly in Sialkot, Jhelum, Gujranwala, Daska and some other districts of Punjab, Pakistan.
But afterwards the ties between Sahota and other castes weakened and counterweight to Sahotas dominated particularly after the disputes over the freedom of Chamars to work outside the village and of the weavers to set their own prices came to the surface.
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