Chechi (clan)
Chechi,[1][2][3] is a clan of the Gurjar community in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. That is prevalent among the Hindu, Sikh, and Muslim Gujjars.[3][4]
Subclans
[edit]- Chauhan'[5]
- Motla or Mudail
- Chadri (Chaddar)
Distributions
[edit]They are mostly inhabit in north Indian States of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab,India, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, And Dehli,[6] while in Pakistan they found in all four provinces, Including Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Hazara,[6] Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and Islamabad.
References
[edit]- ^ Aziz, Khursheed Kamal (1987). Rahmat Ali: A Biography. Vanguard. p. 32. ISBN 978-3-515-05051-7.
Gujjars have 19 gots : Tunwar , Chokhar , Rawal , Kalsan , Kathana , Kasanah , Kalas , Gorsi , Chechi , Dhedar , Poswal , Lawi , Bijar , Khaindar , Melu , Thakaria , Chauhan , Monan , Bhumla.
- ^ Sarban Singh, Haryana (India)., Gazetteers Organisation (2001). Haryana State Gazetteer (Volume 1 ed.). Haryana Gazetteers Organisation, Revenue Department. p. 512.
- ^ a b Ghosh, Anandamayee (2007). The Bhotias in Indian Himalayas: A Socio-linguistic Approach. B.R. Publishing Corporation. pp. 109, 113 and 123. ISBN 978-81-7646-569-4.
Gujjars (Muslims and Hindus and of no particular religious identity) Dodhi Gujjars, Banjara Gujjars, Bakerwal Gujjars with minor subgroups like Hakla, Bajjar Kohli Chechi Khatana Badhana Bagdi Goosi and Kalas etc.
- ^ Ambagudia, Jagannath; Xaxa, Virginius (1 December 2020). Handbook of Tribal Politics in India. SAGE Publishing India. ISBN 978-93-5388-459-8.
- ^ Sahni, Janmenjay (30 July 2020). Magbook Indian History 2020. Arihant Publications India limited. p. 208. ISBN 978-93-241-9930-0.
Ajmer: It was founded in the late AD 7th century by Ajay Raj Singh Chauhan. Chauhan clan is a branch of Chechi Gujjars. The Chauhan dynasty ruled Ajmer in spite of repeated invasions by Turkic Muslim armies from Central Asia across the North of India.
- ^ a b Kumar, Raj (2008). Encyclopaedia of Untouchables Ancient, Medieval and Modern. Klpas publisher. p. 447. ISBN 978-81-7835-664-8.
Gujjar sections: Chechi, Delhi, Kaithal, Thanesar, Karnal, Ambala, Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur: Chainchi, Gurgaon Cheji, Ludhiana, Hazara
Sources
[edit]- William Crooke (1890) An Ethnographical Hand-book for the N.-W. Provinces and Oudh North-Western provinces and Oudh government Press. p.ii
- Henry Samuel Price Davies (1892) Customary Law of the Gujrat District Civil and military gazette Press. p. 2
- Sir Denzil Ibbetson, Maclagan (1990) Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North West Frontier Province Asian Educational Services. p. 314, ISBN 9788120605053
- Sir Denzil Ibbetson, Maclagan (1916) Panjab Castes: Being a Reprint of the Chapter on "The Races, Castes, and Tribes of the People" in the Report on the Census of the Panjab Superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab. p. 188
- India. Census Commissioner, Sir William Chichele Plowden (1883) Report on the Census of British India, Taken on the 17th February 1881: Volume 3 Eyre and Spottiswoode. p. Cxxvii
- Bakhshish Singh Nijjar (2008) Origins and History of Jats and Other Allied Nomadic Tribes of India 900 B.C.-1947 A.D. Atlantic Publishers & Distributors. p. 207, ISBN 9788126909087
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