Ojla

Aujla (औजला) Ojala (ओजला) Ojla (ओजला) gotra Jats live in Rajasthan and Punjab. Aujla Jat clan is found in Pakistan.

Origin

• Aujhlan (औझलान), according to Bhim Singh Dahiya, are the descendants of Ujjihana of Panini. They are to be compared with the Aujhlan clan of Jats. Ojh of Central Asia is the Indian name Ujjihana and Ojhlan/Ojala of present Jat clan. Aujhlan (औझलान) is variant of Ujhlan (उझलान) like putra (पुत्र) changes to Pautra (पौत्र) (उ→औ) in Sanskrit. Uxian → Ujian (x→j) → Ujiana → Ujhiana → Ujihana (उझिहाना) → Ujjihana (उज्झिहाना)

• Uxians - Ujhlan is variant of Uxians of Greeks, who were defeated in December 331 BC by Alexander the Great in his Persian Campaign in the Battle of the Uxian Defile.

• Agalassoi - Megasthenes had mentioned them as Agalassoi. The Jats of this gotra fought against Alexander, who did commit their large scale onslaught. It is estimated that around 3000 persons belonging to this gotra were left who latter on came to settle in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

The destroyers of Cyrus the Great, the scourge of Chinese Han emperors, who were forced to build the Great wall in order to escape them, they lived but a simple, down-to-earth, practical life. Inseparable from their horses, riding them awake and asleep, the first bowmen to shoot accurately from the horsebacks, they defeated Tamerlane the Great Taimur Lung whom they forced to become the "adviser" of their crown Prince, Khoja Oghlan-A Jat from the Ojhlan clan.

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Bhim Singh Dahiya writes....A History of Persia throws light on the kingdoms of the Jats in the Central Asia in the fourteenth century A.D.

"The Governor of Mongolia or Jatah at this period was Tughluk Khan, who on seeing the state of anarchy into which Transoxiana had fallen, determined to annex it. He started on an expedition for this purpose in A.H. 761, (1360 A.D.) and marched on Kesh; Haji Barlas, deeming the odds too great offered no defence and fled to Khurasan (Persia) where he was after wards killed by brigands ... to save the situation, Tamerlane, decided to tender his submission to Tughluk Khan ... in the following years, the Khan of Jateh obtained possession of Samarkand and appointed his son Khoja alias Oghlan to the Governorship of Transoxiana with Tamerlane as his Counselor."

As mentioned above this dynasty was of the Oghlan clan of the Jats who were Buddhists at that time. It should be mentioned that Khan is not a Muslim title, it is a pre-Muslim Central Asian title adopted by many Buddhist kings. It is derived from Khakan/ Kagan/Khan. This title was being used in India, as late as the fourteenth century A.D. Kalhana's Rajatarangini mentions a king, Alakhan of Gujrat (Punjab), and Jonaraja's Chronicles show that at the time of its capture by Sultan Shihabuddin of Kashmir (1354-1373), the ruler of Udabhaṇḍa (modern Und, near Attock), was one Govinda Khan.¹⁹⁶ It is also well known to historians that in 1289 A.D. Jat king Arghun, son of Abaga had proposed to the Christians of Khurasan area, a joint attack on the Muslims who were a new rising power in the Oxus region. It was his successor Ghajan Khan who upon his accession to the throne in 1295 A.D., proclaimed himself a Muslim. He was the first Jat king who embraced Islam, and this marked the beginning of the process of conversion of Central Asia to that faith.

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Uxians or Uxii were a tribal confederation of non-Iranian semi-nomadic people who lived somewhere in the Zagros Mountains. They were classified by Nearchus as among the four predatory peoples of the southwest along with the Mardi, Sousii, and Elymaei. They raided the settled people of Iran and raised sheep.

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Arrian writes that ....Uxians came to the aid of Darius-III (the last king of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia) and were part of alliance in the battle of Gaugamela (331 BC) formed by Darius-III in war against Alexander the Great at Arbela, now known as Arbil, which is the capital of Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq.

Distribution in Rajasthan

Villages in Hanumangarh district

Kharsandi, Ramgarh Hanumangarh, Sangaria,

Villages in Churu district

Chhapar Churu (1),

Distribution in Punjab

Villages in Amritsar district

Ojla population is 2,583 in Amritsar district.

Villages in Gurdaspur district

Aujla named Village is in Gurdaspur tahsil in Gurdaspur district in Punjab.

Villages in Kapurthala district

• Aujla Banwali, Aujla Jogi are villages in Kapurthala tahsil in Kapurthala district in Punjab, India.

Villages in Rupnagar district

• Aujala is Village in Kharar tahsil of Rupnagar district in Punjab.

Villages in Jalandhar district

• Aujla is Village in Phillaur tahsil of Jalandhar district in Punjab.

Distribution in Pakistan

Aujla (औजला), a tribe of Jats descended from their eponym a Hajual jat and found in Sialkot : also found in Montgomery where they are Muhammadans and classed as agricultural.

References

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