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and members of the Sindhanwalia family, a Jat Sikh family to which Ranjit Singh himself belonged
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Ranjit Singh was a Sansi and this identity has led some to claim that his caste affiliation was with the low-caste Sansi tribe of the same name. A much more likely theory is that he belonged to the Jat got that used the same name. The Sandhanvalias belonged to the same got.
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