Bandar
- For village see Bandra
Bandar (बांदर)[1] Bandara (बांदरा)[2] or Vanar (वानर) Bander (बांदर) is gotra of Jats. Bandar Jat clan found in Afghanistan.[3]
Origin
This gotra is said to be started from place called Bandra (बांद्रा). [4]
History
Ram Sarup Joon[5] writes that...about 70 Jat Gotras joined the Gujar force and started calling themselves Gujars. It Bander one of them.
According to H.A. Rose[6] writes that the Bagri Jats have certain sections which might appear totemistic, but very rarely is any reverence paid to the totem. Such are :— Bandar, monkey, in tahsil Hansi, Hisar, Haryana.
Distribution in Haryana
Villages in Sirsa District
Gigorani, Kharia (Sirsa), Kutiana, Tarkanwali,
Distribution in Punjab
Villages in Patiala District
Bandars have a population of 3,180 in Patiala district and 2,316 in Amritsar district in Punjab. [7]
Villages in Bhatinda District
Villages in Mansa district
- Jagatgarh Bandran, Ranjitgarh Bandran villages in Sardulgarh tahsil in Mansa district in Punjab.
Villages in Faridkot district
Wander Jatana village in Faridkot Tahsil of Faridkot district in Punjab.
Villages in Moga district
- Wander is village in Bhagha Purana tahsil in Moga District district in Punjab.
Prominent persons
Krishan Kumar Bandar (Sepoy) (4.5.1977- 30.5.1999) is a Martyr of Kargil war from Haryana. He martyred on 30 May 1999 in Operation Vijay. He was from village Tarkanwali, tahsil Sirsa, district Sirsa, Haryana. Unit-17 Jat Regiment.
References
- ↑ O.S.Tugania:Jat Samuday ke Pramukh Adhar Bindu,p.51,s.n. 1707
- ↑ Jat History Dalip Singh Ahlawat/Parishisht-I, s.n. ब-129
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan, H. W. Bellew, p.28,125
- ↑ Mahendra Singh Arya et al.: Ādhunik Jat Itihas, Agra 1998, p. 268
- ↑ Ram Sarup Joon: History of the Jats/Chapter VI,p.116
- ↑ A glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province By H.A. Rose Vol II/J,p.376
- ↑ History and study of the Jats. B.S Dhillon. pp.124,126
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