Kharuta
Kharuta (खरुटा) Kharutiya (खरुटिया) Kharutya (खरुटया) gotra Jats live in Tonk district in Rajasthan. Kharoti (खरोटी)/Kharaita (खरेटा) clan is found in Afghanistan.[1]
History
Kharoti tribe in Afghanistan
H. W. Bellew[2] writes that beyond the Kakar to the north-east, is the Kharoti tribe, one of the principal clans composing the Povindah association of caravan merchants. The Kharoti represent, the Kharaita mercantile Rajput ; they are reckoned at six thousand families, and inhabit Paltu and Dwa Gomal districts on the east slopes of the Suleman range, and are almost entirely nomadic or pastoral. The chief township in their country is called Urghim, or Warghun, which is inhabited by the Furmuli tribe. The Kharoti also inhabit the western slopes of the Suleman range from Paltu Pass to Katawaz district. The Kharoti who are not enrolled amongst the Povindah are mostly employed in agriculture and grazing ; they own large herds of camels and immense numbers of goats and sheep. The agricultural and pastoral Kharoti differ very remarkably in appearance and manners, and even in language, from the mercantile Kharoti, being more rough in their ways and unkempt in their persons ; but they are all a very fine and manly people, with light complexions compared with Indians.
The Kharoti claim affinity with the Ghilzi, and pretend to have been a branch of the Tokhi, from which they have long been separated. The Sahak Ghilzi, it is said, claim the Kharoti as their dependents or Hamsayah that is, as their vassals. [3]
H W Bellew [4] writes that Several of the Ghilji or Ghilzai clans are almost wholly engaged in the carrying-trade between India and Afghanistan, and the northern states of Central Asia, and have been so for many centuries to the exclusion almost of all the other tribes of the country. The principal clans employed in this great carrying-trade are the Niazi, Nasai, Kharoti, and, to some extent, the Sulemankhel. From the nature of their occupation they are collectively styled, or individually so far as that goes, Povinda and Lawani, or Lohani. These terms, it appears, are derived from the Persian words parwinda, "a bale of merchandise," and rawani, a "traveller."
Villages in Tonk district
Kharuta (खरुटा) Jats live in villages: Bambor (1),
Kharutiya (खरुटिया) Jats live in villages: Bambor (4),
Kharutya (खरुटया) Jats live in villages: Nimehada (6),
Notable persons
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Reference
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, The Oriental University Institute, Woking, 1891, p.124
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, The Oriental University Institute, Woking, 1891, p.124
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, The Oriental University Institute, Woking, 1891, p.125
- ↑ The Races of Afghanistan/Chapter XI, p.103
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