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Major Tribes of Majha Punjab

Major Punjabi Bar Tribes

Some of the atrocities commited in West Panjab during partition. (Thread 1/14🧵)

𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 🧵: 𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙂𝙪𝙧𝙪 𝙏𝙚𝙜𝙝 𝘽𝙖𝙝𝙖𝙙𝙪𝙧 𝙚𝙭𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙙 ? 𝑩𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒊𝒌𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒕𝒗𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑨𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒛𝒆𝒃.

Do you know ? #HinduWomenRaped In the Jihad of 1857 .... Sikh soldiers who served under British East India Company #raped (mass raped) Hindu women of Uttar Pradesh. “The Sikh regiments who have stayed with them are raping Hindoo women" — Bala Rao to Peshwa Nanasaheb II.

Zafar khan, who later took the title muzafffar shah after he established the muzaffarid dynasty, was also a punjabi khatri with roots in southern punjab. The dynasty would rule gujarat and the surrounding areas for the 200 years or so

Our Heroes 📖 From; "Punjab and the War of Independence 1857-1858 (from Collaboration to Resistance)". Turab-ul-Haq Sargana ✍️ Bahlek Wattu :-

He used the Badshahi as stables, his ‘wife’ was a literal kanjri, & if you’re citing as proof for ‘inter-religious’ harmony the presence of Muslims gunners in the army, it was because Muslims had a virtual monopoly on artillery, hence he had no choice. Read this:

This is what the Sikh Empire & Ranjit Singh did to just Lahore's mosques: 1. Badshahi Mosque - turned into stables. 2. Maryam Zamani Mosque - turned into gunpowder factory. 3. Dai Anga Mosque - used to store explosive gunpowder magazines. continued.. x.com/ibnMehr/status…

Indigenous Muslim Dynasties of the Indian Subcontinent 🧵

👑 Emperor Aurangzeb — Guru Gobind. Did you know ? Guru Govind Singh sent a petition to Mughal court requesting Emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir to allow him to kiss the feet of imperial Mughal throne. (A contemporary letter in Sikh history from Persian sources edited by J.S. Grewal)

Largest Muslim Caste across Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, and KPK before Partition. Sourced from 1911 British Gazetteers.

I don't usually indulge in targeting whole communities but since you started this first so here's a reality check. The reality is that most Khatris/Aroras were small shop keepers who were looked down upon and bullied by both Punjabi Muslims and Pathans.

"Stealing another man's Khatri" humiliating