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As per historian W. H. McLeod and Louis Fenech, Khatri is a Punjabi form of the word Kshatriya. [37] Peter Hardy and A. R. Desai also agree that Khatri is derived from Kshatriya. Despite the etymology, Hardy says that Khatri is "a mercantile class" and Desai says the Khatris were "traditionally tradesmen and government officials".
Sultan Muzaffar Shah I, the founder of the Gujarat Sultanate, a Muslim Khatri kingdom and its ruling Muzaffarid Dynasty. He was a Tanka Khatri convert to Islam. [9]Maharaja Bijay Chand Mahtab Kapoor GCIE, KCSI, IOM, with origins from Kotli, Sialkot was the ruler of Bardhaman Raj in Bengal from 1887 till his death in 1941.
Within the Punjabi context, a caste is known as a zat (related to jati). [1] [2] The term baradari refers to an exended kinship. [1] A sub-caste is known as a got in Punjabi (gotra in Hindi). [14]: 40–41 [15]: 144 A got is an exogamous grouping within a particular caste (known as a zat in Punjabi and jati in Hindi).
The Khukhrain or Khokhrain [1] is a sub-group composed of eight clans of the Khatri caste that originally hailed from the areas of the Salt Range. History The Khukhrains spread over Khushab , Dhune Kheb, Chakwal , Pind Dadan Khan , Peshawar , Nowshera and Lahore .
People belonging to a particular gotra may not be of the same caste (as there are many gotras which are part of different castes) in the Hindu social system. However, there is a notable exception among matrilineal Tulu speakers, for whom the lineages are the same across the castes. People of the same gotra are generally not allowed to marry.
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The Ghasiara are strictly endogamous, and practice clan exogamy.Their clans are referred to as gotras, the main ones being the Pataria, Jaria and Suryavanshi.In their new settlements in Haryana, many Ghasiara now collect the grass they cut and sell it the Gujar and Ahir communities, who are pastoralists, as fodder.
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