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  1. Jatts, used to do farming and cattle rearing in ancient times. Similarly some other castes like Saini, Kamboj were also the in same business. None of them are Shudras. Jat, Kamboh, Mahton and Saini, Sikh castes are agricultural and landowning castes. In the estimation of British among Sikhs only these Sikh castes were temperamentally and physically suited for active military service and warfare like the hardy Scotish Highlanders back home who also made excellent soldiers. The glorious Sikh Regiment, the most decorated regiment of the Indian Army. Mazhbi Sikhs are the Shudras.
  2. All of the Sikh Gurus were born in Khatri caste. Guru Nanak's father Mahta Kalu was also a shopkeeper and he tried his best to make his son follow his caste profession of shopkeeping. But Guru Nanak rejected his tutoring and became a man of spirit. Please note that although the word Khatri appears to be a vernacular form of Sanskrit Kshatriya, the caste is exclusively composed of cloth merchants, grocers, perfume sellers (or "Gandhis") and traders . Rajputs , the bonafide Hindu Kshatriya caste, disown all connection with them and treat them same as one of the Baniya castes. Aggarwal Baniyas, a reputable vaishya caste of Hindus, also deny any link with them. English ethnographer Sir Herbert Hope Risley also denied the possibility of the link of Khatris with Kshatriyas. He wrote in 'The tribes and castes of Bengal' : "It seems to me that the internal organization of the caste furnishes almost conclusive proof that they are descended from neither Brahmans nor Kshatriyas...The section-names of the Khatris belong to quite a different type, and rather resemble those in vogue among the Oswals and Agarwals. The only group to which we can affiliate them is the Vaisyas" William Hunter gave opinion in The Imperial Gazetter.
  3. Khatri and Arora dominate the sphere of business activities. Khatri and Aroras are essentially identical caste and are primarily a caste of traders, shopkeepers and accountants. Khatris and Aroras are equivalent of Baniyas found elsewhere in India. Khatri is derived from the word "Khata" . Before the partition of Punjab, Khatris were largely concetrated in West Punjab where, according to English writer Barstow, they were employed in a rather humble way by Pathans as their accountants. It is in this reference some derive the origin of word "Khatri" from "Khata" or an accounting scroll. British army recruiters considered all of these mercantile castes unfit for military service. Khatri Sikhs were sometimes recruited when they happened to have taken up farming and sometimes because of their knowledge of Pashto, which came in handy to British to deal with the unruly Pathans. The mercantile element of this community, which almost entirely constitutes its core identity, was denied access to army. While Bhatias mostly did not even find a mention in recruitment manuals of Royal Indian Army, the Aroras were contemptuously dismissed with comments such as the following by the likes of Barstow : "The Arora, whether Sikh or Hindu, is generally unsuited for military service, and men of this class should never be enlisted except under special circumstances."
  4. It happened in 1192 or 1193. As It was shameful for the Afghans and Muslims that Mohd Gauri was killed in his own Kingdom so the fact was distorted after that Delhi was under constant Muslim Rule till 1857. All the Tawarikh /History was written Muslim scholars and subsequently that History of India was translated by British. so record of wikipedia is based on that. The fact is known to historians of Rajputs and to Afghans so there is tradition in Afghanistan that those who pay visit to the tomb Mohammad Ghori first disrespect the place where the Indian emperor’s mortal remains are buried.
  5. Prithviraj Raso was completed by the son of Chand Bardai after the suicide of his father. Afghans too knowledge that Guari was killed by Prithviraj Chauhan. The proof is his Samadhi in Afganistan and Tradition of Afgans to show their anger on it.
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