Sikh Rajputs

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There are many Sikhs or followers of Sikhism today who call themselves "Sikh Rajputs".

Contents 1 Sikhism and Rajputs 2 See also 3 Further reading 4 External links

[edit] Sikhism and Rajputs

Sikhism is traditionally seen as a religion of warriors who were protectors of Hindus against marauding Islamic invaders who seeked to convert Hindus to Islam by lethal force. Many Punjabi Rajput families too have been giving their sons to be enrolled in the Guru’s Army and baptized as Sikhs. Thus there are many villages that converted to Sikhism mostly in central Punjab districts of Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Fatehgarh Sahib, Patiala, Faridkot, Moga, Nawanshahr and Hoshiarpurwhose kin are proud followers of Sikhism today. Thus there are many Sikh Rajputs with common Rajput surnames such as Chauhan, Parmar, Doad, Rathore, Minhas, Bhatti etc. spread across many villages in Punjab. Many have intermarried Jats because of small numbers of their own community due to forced mass conversions of Rajput landlords in Punjab plains to Islam in the medieval times , for example the Manj Rajputs of Patti were uprooted for refusing to convert and migrated to Nakodar and Raikot where they were finally forced or coerced to convert and given back their Jagirs. The ones that intermarried with Jats have overtime become a part of Jat caste and many Jat last names are the same as Rajputs such as Bahtti, Chauhan and Parmar also a lot of well-knwn Jat clans have their ancestory in major Rajput clans e.g Gill, Dhillon, Waraich, Goraya, Sohal all have some Rajput ancestory. Some [[Rajputs from the Western Punjab especially from Sialkot, Gujrat and Sargodha districts migrated to Jalandhar Doab during the Muslim rule to escape conversion and are concentrated around the Adampur, Bhogpur, Mahilpur belt.

[edit] See also

• Sikhism
• Sikhs
• Hinduism and Sikh Panth
• Hinduism
• Rajputs
• Mair Rajputs of Punjab
• Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947

[edit] Further reading

• Talib, Gurbachan (1950). Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947. India: Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee. Online 1 Online 2 Online 3 (A free copy of this book can be read from any 3 of the included "Online Sources" of this free “Online Book”)

[edit] External links

• Rajputs Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; 2005
• Rajput Encyclopedia Britannica; 1911

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