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[3] [4] Generally, Sikh carpenters use Ramgarhia as a surname whereas Hindu carpenters use Dhiman. [ 4 ] Their artisan skills were noted by the British , who encouraged many Ramgarhia to move to colonies in East Africa in the 1890s, where they assisted in the creation of that region's infrastructure and became Africanised. [ 3 ]
Portrait of three unidentified Tarkhan carpenters from Lahore with tools, ca.1862–72. The Tarkhan is a caste found in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. They are traditionally carpenters by occupation. [1] The Hindu members of this clan are generally identified as Khatis, Suthars or Lohars following the Vishwakarma community of India. [2]
A struggling union pension fund for more than 22,500 metro Detroit carpenters and millwrights is getting a $635 million federal bailout, saving retirees from big cuts to their pension checks next ...
The community claims to be descended from the god Vishvakarma, who is considered by Hindus to be the divine architect or engineer of the universe.He had five children — Manu, Maya, Tvastar, Shilpi and Visvajna — and these are believed by the Vishwakarma community to have been the forebears of their five subgroups, being respectively the gotras (clans) of blacksmiths, carpenters, bell ...
Hundreds of projects are lined up to get a piece of a $700 million pie that state lawmakers are dishing out. Several local projects in line for money from Ohio's $700 million 'super duper fund ...
At the same time the union's old enemy, the Carpenters union, resumed its jurisdictional war with it. Conditions improved somewhat with the advent of the New Deal and the Roosevelt administration's creation of the Works Progress Administration , a public works project that employed thousands of iron workers and other construction workers.
The Tarkhan dynasty (Persian: خانوادهٔ ترخان ), [3] was established by a Tarkhan and ruled the Sindh Sultanate from 1554 to 1593. [4] General Mirza Isa Beg founded the Tarkhan dynasty in Sindh after the death of Shah Husayn Arghun of the Arghun dynasty .
Tarkhan was used among the Sogdian, [4] Saka, Hephthalite, Turkic, and proto-Mongol peoples of Central Asia and by other Eurasian nomads. It was a high rank in the army of Timur . Tarkhans commanded military contingents (roughly of regimental size under the Turkic Khazars ) and were, roughly speaking, generals .