Jatts (?)

[Muslim]

A friend of mine tells me I am a Jatt, my background is Cheema. I actually come from a village that is called Sui Cheemian in Pakistan.

Can someone give me some info on this? sometimes we are called Choudery and sometimes my dad is called Lambardaar Saaib?

My dad actually told me a story once, he told me when the separation of Pakistan and India happened. Loads of people form our village robbed Sikh belongings, because of the trains that were coming from India full of dead Muslims who were killed on India side.

Anyway my dad told me, that my granddad was well known so the Sikhs came with the police to reorganize their belongings that had been taken from them and they would come to our house and have some cha (tea) and my dad was told by his dad to go and tell the people in the village to bring back all the stolen things. And some people did and some didn't.

Anyway he told me another story too that, in the second war there was a person from our village who was captured in India, and one of the Sikh officers lined up all the captured men and asked them their name and what village they were from.

And the Sikh officer asked this person from our village where he was from and he said Sui Cheemian, and the Sikh officer said to him, right you come with me, and he was scared he thought he was going to be shot or something, anyway the Sikh officer had taken him and gave him some food to eat and then he told him he said I am going to let you free, and thet you come from my village I was born in Sui Cheemian and that is why I am going to set you free so the Sikh officer taken him right next to the border gave him some money and a a gun and told him he was free to go.

Which was a pretty good story I thought.

Anyway can someone tell me more about Jatts?

[vijaydeep Singh]

Gurfateh

Some Hindutva people say that they are from Arrati Gantantra(Republic) or Aryans.But others say that that is for Kirarhs or Arora.

As per James todd Jatts have sythian orgeon ie from Hunas and Sakas who came to India.

Same gotra can be there in Germans like gill,mann,birck/birk/birck,Sando(Sandhu) etc.

Even similarty is there with Marthas also ie Mane(Mann),Saluke(Solanki),Shinde(Sandhu),Ranadive(Randhawa) etc.

They are bacialy agricultral tribe but also good in others works.

In present world set up such races are irreleveant and Islam and Sikh Panth both being of semitc origeon do not recoganise races in theory and when Faith is strong in practicle.

Yuo can say that you pagan ancestors were Cheema before convewrsion to Islam.

Cheemas were decendant of those Chaphani/Chahmaan/Chauham Rajputs who started to cultivate.As Rajput who in past touched plugh was considered lower to Rajputs(son of kingom or rulers) so they were called jaat(a Farmer and hence Vaishya Varna).

you can refer to annels and antiquities of Rajasthan for more.

[Sikher]

http://www.jattworld.com/portal/modules/HotNews/

A good starting point

http://www.jattworld.com/portal/modules/mysections/index.php

Cheema – related to Chauhans and Chattas. Found in Sialkot, Gujranwala, etc.

http://www.jattworld.com/portal/modules/ne...355&forum=3

[Muslim]

Thanks for the links. Interesting.

[Slugz]

Hmm, interesting story... a lot of Muslim are Jatt, and a lot of Muslims are Punjabi.... haha, I was rolling the first time I found that out (6+ years ago)... It makes perfect sense though...

[Singh47]

That was a very interesting story Muslim. Where in Pakistan are you from?

[Noor]

I want to visit Pakistan. Some of my family has gone back there and they say our house still looks exactly the same.

(Muslim- by the way, welcome to Sikhawareness)