Warraich (clan)

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Warraich or Waraich is a Jat ethnic clan or tribe found in Pakistani Punjab and the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana. [1] [2]

In Pakistan, this tribe or clan is mostly found in Gujrat District, Mandi Bahauddin District and Gujranwala Districts of Punjab, Pakistan. [3] [4]

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References

  1. Jones, Philip E. (2003). The Pakistan People's Party: Rise to Power. Oxford University Press. p. 329. ISBN   978-0-19-579966-8. In the main, this area is dominated by strong, local Jat clans (Chattha, Cheema, Tarar, Gondal and Waraich) that, in the past near-century, ...[ verification needed ]
  2. Singh, Kumar Suresh (1996). "Appendix B". Communities, Segments, Synonyms, Surnames and Titles. People of India: National series. Vol. 8 (Illustrated ed.). Delhi: Anthropological Survey of India. pp. 1355–1357. ISBN   0-19-563357-1. OCLC   35662663.
  3. Henry Samuel Price Davies. Customary Law of the Gujrat District, Volume 9 of Punjab customary law (pages 2, 6, 8, 9 and 12). Civil and military gazette Press - Harvard University Library (digitized 15 December 2007) via Google Books website. OCLC   1064764399.
  4. "Mandi Bahauddin: a PML-PPP battleground (Warraich, Gondal, Chan and Mangat tribes)". Dawn newspaper. 23 August 2005. Archived from the original on 9 October 2024. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  5. "Local giants succumb to voters' wrath". Dawn newspaper. 25 February 2008. Archived from the original on 8 April 2017. Retrieved 14 October 2024.