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Pakhrals reside mainly in Pothohar Plateau including Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Upper Salt Range region, while some tribes are in Azad Kashmir, Indian-administered Kashmir, Punjab, Hazara and Dera Ismail Khan. Potohar area is famous as Pakhral Rajputs area. Raja is mostly used as a title in Pakhral Rajputs which is derived from the word Rajput.
Amarkot was the only area with a Hindu majority population of Sodha Rajputs and including the ruling family that acceded to Pakistan. Rana Chandra Singh, a federal minister and the chieftain of the Hindu Sodha Rajput clan and the Amarkot Jagir, was one of the founder members of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan from Umarkot, seven times with PPP ...
The Dogra dynasty was a dynasty of Hindu Rajputs who ruled Jammu & Kashmir from 1846 to 1947. The Sikh Empire rule extended beyond the Jammu region and the Kashmir Valley to the Tibetan Buddhist Kingdom of Ladakh and the Emirates of Hunza , Gilgit and Nagar .
Muslim Rajputs also often retained common social practices, such as purdah (seclusion of women), with Hindu Rajputs. [5] Despite the difference in religious faith, where the question has arisen of common Rajput honour, there have been instances where both Muslim and Hindu Rajputs have united together against threats from external ethnic groups ...
The Sodhas of Amarkot were a Rajput [2] dynasty who ruled Amarkot, which is now located in the Sindh province of Pakistan.The Sodha Rajput clan are a branch of the Parmar clan of Rajputs, as they are an off-shoot of Parmara Rajputs, who once controlled regions of Malwa and later North-West parts of Rajasthan.
In Pakistan the census is done on a linguistic basis, so it's harder to come across the population of Rajputs, who are mostly Muslim, at a national level, but at a local level the Punjab government has provided the following numbers: Rajputs constitute 32% of the Kasur District, [187] which as per the 2023 census would give a population of ...
The Indian government is planning to issue Aadhaar cards and PAN cards to Pakistani Hindu refugees, and simplifying the process by which they can acquire Indian citizenship. [240] In 2019, India passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 that allows the persecuted Pakistani Hindus and Sikhs who arrived in India before the end of December 2014 ...
Raghbir Singh Pathania, British Indian officer who served and was killed in World War I [99] Dalpat Singh, son of Thakur Hari Singh Shekhawat, was a British Indian officer, known as the "Hero of Haifa" for his actions in the Battle of Haifa during World War I. [100] Hanut Singh, British Indian officer, son of Pratap Singh of Idar, served in ...