Tokshi
Tokshi (तोक्षी)[1][2] Toxi (तोक्षी) Tochhi (तोछी) Tokhi (तोक्षी) is gotra of Jats. Tokhi (तोखी)/Tochi Jat clan found in Afghanistan.[3]
Origin
The name Tukhara itself survives in the name of the Tokhi caste found in the North- West.[4] This gotra originated from place name Tochhigarh (तोछीगढ़). [5]
In Afghan history
H. W. Bellew[6] writes that Bibi Matto is said by the Afghan accounts to have borne Shah Husen a number of other sons, viz , Turan, Tolar, Buran, and Polar. Here are
[Page-100]: names of quite a different stamp, and their character is maintained in the subdivisions of tribes springing from them in succeeding generations. Thus Turan is divided into the clans of Tokhi and Hotak, whilst amongst those classed as sprung from Buran are the Andar and Taraki. All these names are distinctly of Turk origin, and the evidence of the Afghan accounts, such as they are, go to show that (even if there had been a prior immigration of some part of this Turk tribe) about the beginning of the eighth century of our era, when the Arabs were over running Transoxiana the country called Turan in contradistinction to Iran with the sword and Kuran, certain Turk tribes, known by the name of Khilich or Khilichi, and said to be Christians of the Nestorian Church at that time a flourishing patriarchate in both Western and Eastern Turkistan emigrated from their native country and sought refuge in the inaccessible mountains of Ghor in Afghanistan.
Tochhi village
Tochhi (तोछी) is a village in Atrauli tahsil in Aligarh district in Uttar Pradesh.
Reference
- ↑ Jat History Dalip Singh Ahlawat/Parishisht-I, s.n. त-28
- ↑ O.S.Tugania:Jat Samuday ke Pramukh Adhar Bindu,p.43,s.n. 1157
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan, H. W. Bellew, p.16,30,120
- ↑ Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptions, p.166
- ↑ Mahendra Singh Arya et al: Adhunik Jat Itihas, p. 253
- ↑ The Races of Afghanistan/Chapter XI,p.99-100
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