Sekhri

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Sekhris
Classification	Indo-Scythians
Religions	Hinduism, Sikhism, Islam
Languages	Punjabi and Hindi
Populated States	Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Punjab (Pakistan) and other parts of Northern India
Subdivisions	Punjabi

Sekhri is a well known Khatri (From Sanskrit क्षत्रिय Kshatriya) clan in India. Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism, was born into a khatri family. His son, Sri Chand, was the founder of the Udasi order, which is the oldest of the existing Sikh orders.

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Khatri is a community that originated in the Pothwar plateau (Rawalpindi division) and surrounding regions of Punjab, Pakistan. When Pakistan and India gained independence, most of the Khatris in what became Pakistan migrated to India. Today Khatris live in all regions of India, but are concentrated in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. While most Khatris are Hindu, some are also Sikh and a few belong to the Jain faith. Khatris of all these faiths collectively form one community. In modern times, the Khatri play a dominant role in the Indian economy, serving as businessmen, civil and government administrators, landlords, and military officials. They are by far the most educated group in Punjab.

The Kuldevi of Sekhri parivar is situated at Village Talwan, under tehsil Nurmahal of District Jalandhar, Punjab (India) and is popularly known as "Sati Mata". The joint family function (Bhandara) of sekhri family is now regularly celebrated in the end of Oct./beginning of Nov. around Deepawali Festival at Talwan every year.

Community function (Bhandara) is proposed to be held on on 17th Nov., 2013 for the year 2013 at Talwan.

It is to add here that when a new male baby is born or a son is married, the families gather at this place before their kuldevi on the full moon day after the male boy has become 40 days or above/after the marriage of their son to get the blessings of SATI MATA and perform the rituals as defined in their family rites.

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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Sekhri

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