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- ↑ Andrew Wilder (1999). The Pakistani Voter, Electoral Politics and Voting Behavior in the Punjab. Oxford University Press. p. 178. ISBN 9780195790726.
...Chattha, Tarar, Virk, Warraich Jats...)
- ↑ 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, ...
- ↑ 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.
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