Khullar

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Khullar is a Punjabi Khatri clan.

Khullar
Classification	Kshatriya
Religions	Hinduism, Sikhism
Languages	Punjabi and Hindi
Populated States	Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and other parts of Northern India
Subdivisions	none

Place of origin

Khullars are actually descendants of a sage in the Himalayas some 1200 years back. They are all offspring of a sage called Gomas Rishi. Later on they have scattered at different places all around the world.

According to other information available, Some Khullars have migrated from Kabul (Afghanistan), and now mostly are based in Samrala, Machiwara and Firozepur (Punjab India).

Prior to the partition in 1947, Khatri clans, such as Churamani, Nanda, Khullar, Jerath, Chopra and Vig were particularly associated with the city of Ludhiana in Eastern Punjab (today in the Indian state of Punjab (India). But prior 1947, there were some Khullars who belongs to villages Sargoda and Kahna Kacchha Pakistan.

The Khullars are also settled in the cities of Hoshiarpur and Jalandhar for the last three centuries. The Khullars of Basti Guzan in Jalandhar have gone to other places like Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi due to their government service postings and have settled there. Some have immigrated abroad to Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and various parts of Africa in search of jobs and have settled there.

There is a place near Ludhiana called village "Bharri". Every year the people there organise a huge fair and all the people from Khullar community go there and pray in front of Khullar's Sati Mata( Kul Devi). Every year this fair is organised on the third day (i.e. on ekadashi) from Krishna Janmashtami, that is, the birth day of Lord Krishna.T his place (the Temple of Kul Devi) may be reached by rail and road. By rail coming from Ambala side, the nearest railway station is Khanna, and from here road transportation is available and it takes hardly 30 minutes to reach the temple. This temple was built in 1469.

Religion

Like most Khatri clans, the Khullar clan is almost exclusively Hindu. However, a small minority has converted to Sikhism. Khullars are usually Kshatriyas.

References

Religion and castes in Punjab

v t e Ethnic groups, social groups and tribes of the Punjab

Agrawal	Airan Bansal Dharan Garg Goenka Goyal Gupta Jindal Kansal Mudgal Mangal Mittal Nangal Singhal Singla

Arains	Choudhry Ghurki Mian Mehar Ramay Dhankhar

Aroras	List of Arora subgroups

Brahmins	Punjabi Brahmins Saraswat Brahmins Bali Chhibber Datt Lau Mohan Mohyal Pathak Sharma

Scheduled Castes	Punjabi Dalits Chamar Chura Mazhabi Nanda Mirasi

Ahirs	Aheers Yaduvanshi Ahirs Ahirs Harals Ghosi Bhurtiya Aharwar Nirban Ranghar Dagar Dahiya

Gurjars	Gurjar Parihar Kasana Chechi Bagri Harsana Chavda Tomar Bhati Nanda Chauhan Solanki Mavi Nekadi Nagari Baisla

Jats	Matharu Bains Virdi Bajwa Basra Beniwal Bhullar Birring Dhankhar Bhullar Chahal Chatha Cheema Chohan Dhaka Dhillon Dhaliwal Dhindsa Dhothar Ghuman Gill Gondal Goraya Grewal Heer Khokhar Maan Patlan Ponwar Randhawa Sandhu Saharan Sehgal Sidhu Sial Sodhi Sohal Virk Sanghera Wahla Sahi Nanda Balhara.

Labana	Datla Ghotra Labana Lohana Narowal Nanda

Khatris	Babbar Bedi Bhasin Bindra Chopra Dhawan Duggal Ghai Khukhrain Kapoor Khanna Kohli Malhotra Malik Nanda Nayar Oberoi Puri Roshan Sabharwal Sahni Sehgal Sekhri Sethi Sodhi Suri Talwar Tandon Thapar Tuli Vohra

Rajputs	Hunjan Hun Manhas Bais Butta Bhakral Bhatti Candel Chattar Chib Chauhan Doad Dhulia Deora Gohil Jamwal Janjua Jappa Mair Manj Mekan Naroo Nauls Noon Parmar Panwar Prasad Pundir Puni Ranawat Rawat Ranial Rathore Saharan Sulehria Shaktawat Solangi Sohlan Sisodia Tuar Thakial Varya

Tarkhans	Bhambra Jandu Panesar Rooprai Rayat Rupal Ramgharia Sohal

Sayyid	Gardezi Hashemi

Chhimba	Bedi Dhami Gandhi Jassar Kapoor Kakkar Kairon Khanna Trehan

Others	Bakarwal Bania Bishnois Kamboj Khateek Kumhars Sansi

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