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Dogar people settled in ] during the ].<ref name=Singh1988/> They have been classified as a branch of the Rajput. <ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fiaz |first1=HM |last2=Akhtar |first2=S |last3=Rind |first3=AA |title=Socio-cultural condition of South Punjab: a case of Muzaffargarh District |journal=International Research Journal of Education and Innovation |date=2021 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=21–40 |doi=10.53575/irjei.3-v2.2(21)21-40. However, their ancestry is contested as many claim to descend from Kashmiri dogras, and some classify themselves as jats. There also have been claims that they migrated from Central Asia, as many Dogar tribes still reside there. Initially a ] people, the Dogar ] in the Punjab, where they became owners of land in the relatively arid central area where cultivation required particularly strenuous work.<ref name=Chaudhuri2008>{{cite book |title=Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India |volume=8 |first=BB |last=Chaudhuri |publisher=Pearson Education India |year=2008 |isbn=978-8-13171-688-5 |pages=194–195 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ljmIJySEm4UC&pg=PA194}}</ref>.<ref name=Singh1988>{{cite journal |last=Singh |first=C |author-link=Chetan Singh |title=Conformity and conflict: tribes and the 'agrarian system' of Mughal India |journal=The Indian Economic & Social History Review |year=1988 |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=319–340 |doi=10.1177/001946468802500302 | ||
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Clan of India and Pakistan For other uses, see Dogar and Dogra. Not to be confused with Dogras.
The Dogar are a Punjabi people of Muslim heritage (bradari). 'Dogar' is commonly used as a last name.
History
Dogar people settled in Punjab during the Medieval period. They have been classified as a branch of the Rajput. Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page)..Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
In 1808, a Dogar state was established, under the patronage of British, in Ferozepur to counter Ranjit Singh.
In literature
In the Sufi poet Waris Shah's tragic romance of 1766, Heer Ranjha, Dogars are revered for their wisdom (along with Jats and other agricultural groups).
See also
References
- ^ John, A (2009). Two dialects one region: a sociolinguistic approach to dialects as identity markers (PDF) (MA thesis). Ball State University. Archived from the original on 5 November 2022.
- Cite error: The named reference
Singh1988was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - Gaeffke, P (1991). "Hīr Vāriṡ Śāh, poème panjabi du XVIIIe siècle: Introduction, translittération, traduction et commentaire. Tome I, strophes 1 à 110 by Denis Matringe ". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 111 (2): 408–409. doi:10.2307/604050. JSTOR 604050.
...and we come across scathing remarks about 'plebeians' such as Jats, Dogars and other agricultural castes.
Further reading
- Ibbetson, D (1916) . "The Dogars". Panjab castes. Lahore: Government Printing, Punjab. pp. 177–178.
- Rose, HA (1911). "Dogar". A glossary of the tribes and castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier province. Vol. II. Lahore: Samuel T Weston. pp. 244–246.
- Longworth Dames, M (1987) . "Fīrūzpūr". E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936. Vol. 3. Leiden: Brill. p. 114. ISBN 978-9-00408-265-6.