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The '''Dogar''' are a [[Punjabis|Punjabi]] people of [[Muslim]] heritage (''[[:wikt:bradree|bradari]]'').<ref name=John2009>{{cite thesis |last=John |first=A |year=2009 |title=Two dialects one region: a sociolinguistic approach to dialects as identity markers |type=MA thesis |publisher=Ball State University |docket= |oclc= |url=https://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/123456789/193541 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105190645/https://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/bitstream/handle/123456789/193541/Ajohn_2009-3_BODY.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |archive-date=5 November 2022 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 'Dogar' is commonly used as a [[last name]].<ref name=John2009/> <br />
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== History ==<br />
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The Dogar people settled in [[Punjab]] during the [[History of Punjab#Medieval Punjab (c.500 AD – 1526 AD)|Medieval period]].<ref name=Singh1988/> They have been classified as a branch of the [[Rajput]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fiaz |first1=HM |last2=Akhtar |first2=S |last3=Rind |first3=AA |title=Socio-cultural condition of South Punjab: a case of Muzaffargarh District |journal=International Research Journal of Education and Innovation |date=2021 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=21–40 |doi=10.53575/irjei.3-v2.2(21)21-40 |url=http://www.irjei.com/index.php/irjei/article/view/27/17|doi-access=free }}</ref> (a large cluster of interrelated peoples from the [[Indian subcontinent]]). Initially a [[Pastoralism|pastoral]] people, the Dogar [[History of agriculture in the Indian subcontinent#Late Middle Ages (1200–1526 CE)|took up agriculture]] in the Punjab, where they became owners of land in the relatively arid central area where cultivation required particularly strenuous work.<ref name=Chaudhuri2008>{{cite book |title=Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India |volume=8 |first=BB |last=Chaudhuri |publisher=Pearson Education India |year=2008 |isbn=978-8-13171-688-5 |pages=194–195 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ljmIJySEm4UC&pg=PA194}}</ref> In addition to cultivating crops such as ''[[jowar]]'' (millet) and [[wheat]], they seem partly to have continued pastoral practices, sometimes [[pastoral nomads|as nomads]].<ref name=Singh1988>{{cite journal |last=Singh |first=C |author-link=Chetan Singh |title=Conformity and conflict: tribes and the 'agrarian system' of Mughal India |journal=The Indian Economic & Social History Review |year=1988 |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=319–340 |doi=10.1177/001946468802500302 |url=https://www.academia.edu/download/62288224/Conformity___Conflict.pdf }}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The arid conditions proved challenging, especially in the light of competition from peoples with more established agricultural ways (notably the [[Jats]]), and over the centuries the Dogars developed a long-lasting reputation for marauding behaviour,<ref name=Chaudhuri2008/> such as animal raiding and other types of theft, including highway robbery.<ref name=Singh1988/><br />
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In the late 17th century, the Dogars residing within the [[faujdar]]i of Lakhi Jangal (in present-day [[Multan District|Multan]]) were among the tribes that challenged the authority of the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] emperor [[Aurangzeb]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Centre and periphery in the Mughal State: the case of seventeenth-century Panjab |vauthors=Singh C |journal=Modern Asian Studies |volume=22 |issue=2 |year=1988 |at=313 |jstor=312624 |doi=10.1017/s0026749x00000986|s2cid=144152388 }}</ref><br />
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==In literature==<br />
In the Sufi poet [[Waris Shah]]'s tragic romance of 1766, ''[[Heer Ranjha]]'', Dogars are scorned as commoners (along with Jats and other agricultural groups).<ref>{{cite journal |title=''Hīr Vāriṡ Śāh, poème panjabi du XVIIIe siècle: Introduction, translittération, traduction et commentaire. Tome I, strophes 1 à 110'' by Denis Matringe [review] |first=P |last=Gaeffke |journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society |volume=111 |issue=2 |date=1991 |pages=408–409 |doi=10.2307/604050 |jstor=604050 |quote=...and we come across scathing remarks about 'plebeians' such as Jats, Dogars and other agricultural castes.}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Lakhi Jungle]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*{{cite book |last1=Ibbetson |first1=D |author-link1=Denzil Ibbetson |chapter=The Dogars |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/panjabcastes00ibbe/page/176/mode/2up?q=%22474.+The+Dogars%22 |title=Panjab castes |title-link=Panjab Castes |orig-date=1883 |publication-date=1916 |location=Lahore |publisher=Government Printing, Punjab |pages=177–178}}<br />
*{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://archive.org/details/glossaryoftribes03rose/page/n518/mode/1up?ref=ol&view=theater&q=Dogar |title=Dogar |author-link=Horace Arthur Rose |encyclopedia=A glossary of the tribes and castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier province |last=Rose |first=HA |year=1911 |volume=II |location=Lahore |publisher=Samuel T Weston |pages=244–246}}<br />
*{{cite book |last1=Longworth Dames |first1=M |author-link1=Mansel Longworth Dames |chapter=Fīrūzpūr |title=E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936 |volume=3 |title-link=Encyclopaedia of Islam |location=Leiden |publisher=Brill |publication-date= 1987 |orig-date=1934 |isbn=978-9-00408-265-6 |page=114 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xd5VonTOppMC&pg=PA114}}<br />
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