Bajwa Jat Clan Location India: Punjab (India), Gurdaspur, Amritsar Punjab, Sirsa Haryana, Pakistan: Sialkot District, Narowal, Gujranwala, southern punjab/Seraiki belt, Interior Sindh, Faisalabad Descended from Aryan, Scythian Language Punjabi, Urdu Religion Islam, Sikhism, Hinduism Bajwa (Urdu: باجوہ) is as Jat tribe in Pakistan and as gotra in India. Distribution in India and Pakistan Villages in Jalandhar district Bajwa Kalan, Bajwa Khurd are village in Shahkot tahsil in Jalandhar district in Punjab, India. According to B S Dhillon the population of Bajwa clan in Jalandhar district is 1,800.[1] Villages in Patiala district Bajwa population in Patiala is 2,820.[2] Bajwa population in Amritsar is 2,874.[3] Villages in Gurdaspur district In Gurdaspur district the Bajwa population is 3,711.[4] Etymology Bajwa means the Clan of the Hawk, and is a common last name amongst Punjabis. The word itself "Bajwa" is derived from the word Baaz Wala (pronounced as Baaj in colloquial Punjabi), the Arabic word for hawk or falcon. Bajwa in Persian also means "the people who levied Tax". Bajwas living in the Bajwat area (the Sialkot and Narowal districts in Punjab (Pakistan)) were known to harass the invading armies of Timur, Ahmed Shah Abdali and others, who invaded India from the northwest. Origin Bajwa is a prominent Jat clan of the Punjab. They claim Suryavanshi descent. The ancestor of the Bajwas is Baba Manga. Their place of origin is Bajwat in the Sialkot and Narowal districts of Pakistan. This place is located in the Shiwalik foothills and is quite near the Indian border as well as the city of Jammu. At one time, Bajwa Jats had eighty-four villages in the Sialkot area. Another legend is that one of their ancestors, Rai Jaison, was forced to leave Delhi by Rai Pithora (Prithvi Raj Chauhan). Baba Manga had seven sons. The eldest, Naro established a village, which was named as NaroBajwa Narowal after him. Another son, Deepa founded Kotli Bajwa and a third one, Chandu founded Chanduwal. The founder of the Bajwa clan, Bajwat (or Wajab) used to live in Jaisalmer in Rajasthan. From there, he migrated to Sialkot and Gujranwala. One of his descendants became the ruler of Multan. Raja Shilp, a Bajwa ruler, was ousted from Multan by Sikandar Lodhi. Raja Shilp had two sons named Kala and Lis. Both used to rear hawks. Bajwas in India are mostly Sikhs and Bajwas in Pakistan are usually Muslims. Bajwas became Sikh at the time of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Religion Found in both India and Pakistan, Bajwas have a roughly equal distributions in both countries. In Pakistan, Bajwas are Muslim, Sunni or Ahmadiyya/Qadiyani, while in India they are overwhelmingly Sikh with a strong Hindu Bajwa{bajia in rajasthan} community present as well as a very small Ahmadi community present in Qadian. Based on pre-partition data: Muslims ~50% ***Both Sunni(40%) and Ahmadi(10%) groups respectively Sikhs ~45% Hindus ~5%
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