Kahan
Kahan (काहन)[1] [2] is a gotra of Jats. They lived in Jungle areas from where moved out and were called Kahan. [3]
Origin
Gotra is based on place name Kahan.
Kahan is located in Kohlu District of Balochistan, Pakistan. Kahan is famous for being the native village of Nawab Khair Baksh Marri, the Nawab of Kohlu Agency. After the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti in nearby Tartani, Kahan also gained media fame. [4]
History
The Mari is a widely-spread tribe in this quarter, and musters strongly also in Lower Sind about Sakar and Khyrpur. The portion of the tribe we are concerned with inhabits the hills bounding Kachi on the east and north, alongside of the Khatran, the Luni, and the Tarin, and having the Bugti to the south. Their chief place is Kahan, around which they extend into Sibi and the Sham and Phelawar plains. They are a nomadic and predatory people, have no villages, and but little agriculture, and have some small forts. [5]
See also
References
- ↑ Jat History Dalip Singh Ahlawat/Parishisht-I, s.n. क-155
- ↑ Dr Ompal Singh Tugania: Jat Samuday ke Pramukh Adhar Bindu, p.31,sn-291.
- ↑ Mahendra Singh Arya et al.: Adhunik Jat Itihas, Agra 1998, p. 233
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, p.139
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