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Jat Muslim or Musalman Jat (Punjabi: جٹ مسلمان; Sindhi: مسلمان جاٽ), also spelled Jatt or Jutt (Punjabi pronunciation: [d͡ʒəʈːᵊ]), are an elastic and diverse [1] ethno-social subgroup of the Jat people, who are composed of followers of Islam and are native to the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent. [2]
Tarar is a Jat clan of Punjabis found among Muslims in Pakistan, mainly in the Punjab region. [1] [2] Notable people with the name include: Mamoon Jaffar Tarar, Pakistani politician; Azam Nazeer Tarar, Federal Minister for Law and Justice and Senator of Pakistan; Bilal Farooq Tarar, Pakistani politician
Pind Jata (Urdu: پنڈ جاٹا, romanized: pinḍ jāṭā) is a village situated near the outskirts of the town of Dina in the district of Jhelum in the Pakistani province of Punjab. The word pind means "village" in the Punjabi language, and jata refers to the Jatt tribe which is prominent in the area where Pind Jata is situated, so Pind ...
Khokhar (Urdu: کھوکھر) is a historical Punjabi tribe primarily native to the Pothohar Plateau of Pakistani Punjab. Khokhars are also found in the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana. [1] Khokhars predominantly follow Islam, having converted to Islam from Hinduism after coming under the influence of Baba Farid. [1] [2] [3]
The Jat people, also spelt Jaat and Jatt, [1] are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. [2] [3] [4] [a] [b] [c] Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, many Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subsequently into the Delhi Territory, northeastern Rajputana, and the western Gangetic Plain in the 17th and ...
Khar (Punjabi: کھر) is a Punjabi Jat tribe found in Pakistan and is considered among the prominent tribes of Muzaffargarh District. [1] They are a branch of the larger Kharal tribe [ 2 ] and multiple legends exist as to why their name was shortened from Kharal to Khar .
Sandhu or Sindhu (Punjabi: ਸੰਧੂ (Gurmukhi); سندھو (Shahmukhi)) is the second largest clan of Jats in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. [2] [3] The Sandhus played an important role in the Sikh history. [4]
The Bhattis are Punjabi [4] [5] [6] and Sindhi. [7] [8] [9] The Bhats, are descended from a common ancestor, Rao Bhati, a 3rd-century Hindu monarch. [10] The Muslim Bhattis had control over Bhatner and settlements around it. The Bhattis later lost Bhatner to the Rathores of Bikaner, who renamed Bhatner as Hanumangarh. [11]