Social Groups of Punjab (Pakistan): Jat Muslim, Punjabi Rajput, Gurjar, Mughal, Gakhars, Ranghar, Meo, Kamboj, Awan, Khateek, Aheer, Sayyid

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 107. Chapters: Jat Muslim, Punjabi Rajput, Gurjar, Mughal, Gakhars, Ranghar, Meo, Kamboj, Awan, Khateek, Aheer, Sayyid, Mirasi, Muley Jat, Pathans of Punjab, Arain, Punjabi Shaikh, Dogar, Muslim Dhobi, Dogar family, Dhund Abbasi, Muslim Teli, Muslim Tyagi, Baloch of Punjab, Hashmi Syed, Muslim Gaddi, Dakoha, Hajjam, Muslim Shaikh, Nalband, Maliar, Bodla, Chiniotis, Rawal, Khumra, Miana, Rath, Malik, Mallaah, Chhimba Darzi, Gaurwa, Muslim Dogra, Chishti, Piracha, Jhandir, Jhabel, Chura, Sarpal, Aarbi. Excerpt: Jat Muslims or Musalman Jats or Muley Jat (Urdu: ) are an Indo-Aryan tribal group found throughout the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. Some Jats, who originally were Hindus, starting converting to Islam from the Middle Ages onward. A Scythian (Saka) horseman from Pazyryk in Central Asia, c. 300 BCThe Hindu mythological account in Deva Samhita traces the origin of Jat people to Lord Shiva's locks (see Origin of Jat people from Shiva's Locks). The earliest attestation of the Jat people is in a Pali inscription dated to AD 541 (as Jit). In 2007 a limited medical survey of haplotypes frequently found in Jats from the Indian states of Haryana and Punjab found no matches with Romani populations. However, in 2009 a "Jat mutation" that causes a type of glaucoma in Romani people was discovered. A press release from Leeds University states: "An international collaboration led by Manir Ali of the Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, first identified the 'Jatt' mutation in one of four Pakistani families. Further study amongst Roma populations in Europe showed that the same mutation accounted for nearly half of all cases of PCG in that community. Manir Ali's research also confirms the widely accepted view that the Roma originated from the Jatt clan of Northern India and Pakistan and not from Eastern Europe as previously believed...".