Kator
Kator (कटोर) (Catal) is a Jat clan.[1] Kator (Catal) clan is found in Afghanistan.[2] Kator or Katoria or Kataria or Katoran or Katorman are same clans, [3]
Origin
History
Catal is supposed to stand for Kator, a very celebrated Scythian tribe, of which we shall speak later on. [4]
H. W. Bellew writes that The Sakarauloi of Herodotus are by some supposed to be represented by the modern Sarikoli, but a preferable identification is obtained by reading Sakatauroi instead of Sakarauloi ; we should then have on the east of Baktria the great and powerful Kataur or Kator nation, which established contemporary branch dynasties at Kabul and in Kashmir, and which is at this day represented in Afghanistan by the Shah-Kator princes of Chitral and Kashkar. [5]
H. W. Bellew writes that Katar, or Kator, is the same people as the Katoran or Katorman, who established a Turk dynasty which ruled contemporaneously in two branches at Kabul and Peshawar respectively, from the beginning of the fifth to the latter part of the ninth century, when, after losing much of their power and territory to the Tuar Rajput kings of Delhi, they were finally overthrown by them and the Ghaznavis. Under the rule of the Kator Yuechi (Getai or Jata) Buddhism was the religion of the country, but during the century or so of Tuar Rajput sovereignty, Brahminism was the dominant religion, till the Hindu was finally dispossessed by Sabaktagin, who founded the Ghaznavi Turk dynasty. The Shah Katori of Kashkar and Chitral, who, as above suggested, represent the Sakarauloi of Strabo, are the same people as the Katar of Kafiristan, the name of which country was formerly Kator ; at least in the time of Tamerlane, the beginning of the fifteenth century. [6]
The Kator (or Katoar or Kataria or Kshatriya), the Kotol or Kitolo of the Chinese or Kedara or Katorman of Abu Rehan or Cidaritae or White Huns of Priscus, are none else but Yueh-Chih. [7]
H.A. Rose writes that Kator (कटोर) race is mentioned by several Muhammadan historians of India. Baihaki in his Tarikh-i-Sabaktigin mentions that all the Hindu Kators were brought under the rule of the Sultan Mas'ud, but he does not specify their locality.* Abu Rihan al Biruni speaks of Katorman as the last of the Turk kings of Kabul,† but the dynasty appears to have been also called Katorman, Katorian or Kayorman.†† Elliot gives a full account; of them, but it is doubtful if the dynasty was generally called Katorman.§ Taimur however unquestionably found the Kators in alliance with the Siahposh and holding a kingdom which extended from the frontier of Kashmir to the mountains of Kabul and contained many towns and villages. Their ruler was called 'Adalshu, Uda, or Udashu (which recalls Udayana or Swat) and had his capital at Jorkal. He describes the Kators as men of a powerful frame and fair complexion, idolaters for the most part, and speaking a tongue distinct from Turki, Persian, Hindi or Kashmiri.‖ Taimur attacked their strongholds, reaching, according to Raverty, that part of Kafiristan known as Kashtur while the prince Rustam advanced into those parts where the Katibi, Siahposh, Pandu and Salao now dwell.¶ This was in 1398 A.D., and in the end of the 15th century Sultan Mahmud, a descendant of Taimur led expeditions against the Kator Kafirs and Siahposh and thereby earned the title of Ghazi. Raverty identifies the Kator with the Spin or White Kafirs,** but the historians of Akbar, who sent an expedition under Jahangir in 1581 against the Siahposh Kafirs of the mountains of Kator, and Abu'l Fazl in his history of Taimur's expedition speak of the Hinduan-i-Kator, a country which they describe as bounding Buner, Swat and Bajaur on the north. The family of the Mihtar of Chitral is still called Kator (vide p. 174 supra), and Biddulph's proposed identification of the Kathiar or Khattar of Attock cannot be regarded as proved.¶¶ [8]
- * E. H. I., I. p. 128.
- † Ibid. p. 403.
- †† Ibia. pp. 405-6.
- § Ibid. pp. 407-8.
- ‖ Ibid. pp. 400-1. Cf. pp. 480-1,
- ¶ Notes on Afghanistan, p. 130.
- ** Ibid., p. 135.
- ¶¶ It is abandoned by Irvine : J. R. A. S., 1911, pp. 217-9
Kator (कटोर)/Katore(कटोरे), a Jat clan is found in Multan. [9]
Notable persons
Reference
- ↑ History and study of the Jats Prof. B.S. Dhillon
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, The Oriental University Institute, Woking, 1891, p.25,142,155
- ↑ The Jats:Their Origin, Antiquity and Migrations, by Hukum Singh Panwar (Pauria) p.325
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, The Oriental University Institute, Woking, 1891, p.25
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, The Oriental University Institute, Woking, 1891, p.142
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, The Oriental University Institute, Woking, 1891, p.146
- ↑ The Jats:Their Origin, Antiquity and Migrations, by Hukum Singh Panwar (Pauria) p.325
- ↑ A glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province By H.A. Rose Vol II/K,p.485
- ↑ A glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province By H.A. Rose Vol II/K,p.485
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