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The Dogar are a Punjabi people of Muslim heritage (bradari).[1] 'Dogar' is commonly used as a last name.[1]
History
The Dogar people settled in Punjab during the Medieval period.[2] They have been classified as a branch of the Rajput[3] (a large cluster of interrelated peoples from the Indian subcontinent). Initially a pastoral people, the Dogar took up agriculture in the Punjab, where they became owners of land in the relatively arid central area where cultivation required particularly strenuous work.[4] In addition to cultivating crops such as jowar (millet) and wheat, they seem partly to have continued pastoral practices, sometimes as nomads.[2] 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,[4] such as animal raiding and other types of theft, including highway robbery.[2]
In the late 17th century, the Dogars residing within the faujdari of Lakhi Jangal (in present-day Multan) were among the tribes that challenged the authority of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.[5]
In literature
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).[6]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Template:Cite thesis
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Conformity and conflict: tribes and the 'agrarian system' of Mughal India. The Indian Economic & Social History Review({Template:Year).Template:Dead link
- ↑ Socio-cultural condition of South Punjab: a case of Muzaffargarh District. International Research Journal of Education and Innovation({Template:Date).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India{{#if:Chaudhuri|, Chaudhuri}. Pearson Education India(2008). ISBN 978-8-13171-688-5
- ↑ Centre and periphery in the Mughal State: the case of seventeenth-century Panjab. Modern Asian Studies({Template:Year).
- ↑ Hīr Vāriṡ Śāh, poème panjabi du XVIIIe siècle: Introduction, translittération, traduction et commentaire. Tome I, strophes 1 à 110 by Denis Matringe [review]. Journal of the American Oriental Society({Template:Date).
Further reading
- Panjab castes{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Government Printing, Punjab
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- E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Brill. ISBN 978-9-00408-265-6