Hans clan

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The Hans are a tribe found in Punjab, Pakistan.[1]

History and origin

They claim to be of Quraishi origin. The Hans were one of the many tribes that occupied the upland of the Neeli Bar before the start of colonization of the Punjab by the British Imperial authorities in the 19th century.

They say they emigrated from Arabia to Afghanistan, thence to Punjab, where they settled in Pukka Sidhar in what is now Pakpattan District. In the time of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, the Hans tribe under their chief Shaikh Qutab, attained independent rule over a portion of that district, and retained their independence till the time of the Sikhs, when about the middle of the 18th Century the streams that fertilised their country dried up.[2]


See also

  • List of Bari Tribes

References

  1. ↑ 1998 district census report of Sahiwal. Islamabad : Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan, 1999
  2. ↑ Punjab Caste by Denzil Ibbetson
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