Dogar
The Dogar are a Punjabi people of Muslim heritage (bradari).[1] 'Dogar' is commonly used as a last name.[1]
History
Dogar people settled in Punjab during the Medieval period.[2] They have been classified as a branch of the Rajput[3] (a large cluster of interrelated peoples from the Indian subcontinent). Initially a pastoral people, the Dogar took up agriculture in the Punjab, where they became owners of land in the relatively arid central area where cultivation required particularly strenuous work.[4] In addition to cultivating crops such as jowar (millet) and wheat, they seem partly to have continued pastoral practices, sometimes as nomads.[2]
The Dogars may possess a Turkish-Kurdish[5] origin based on the emigration of a scion of Oghuz Khan,[6] known as the Döger. This theory is reinforced by the Dogar/ Togar/ Döğer (tribe) of Turkey.[7]
In the late 17th century, the Dogars residing within the faujdari of Lakhi Jangal (in present-day Multan) were among the tribes that challenged the authority of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.[8]
In literature
In the Sufi poet Waris Shah's tragic romance of 1766, Heer Ranjha, Dogars are celebrated for their beauty and wisdom (along with Jats and other agricultural groups).[9]
See also
References
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- Amieke, Amieke (2011). "Turkmenistan: Epics in Place of Historiography". Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. 4 (59). Retrieved 24 September 2023.
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- Singh C (1988). "Centre and periphery in the Mughal State: the case of seventeenth-century Panjab". Modern Asian Studies. 22 (2). 313. doi:10.1017/s0026749x00000986. JSTOR 312624. S2CID 144152388.
- Gaeffke, P (1991). "Hīr Vāriṡ Śāh, poème panjabi du XVIIIe siècle: Introduction, translittération, traduction et commentaire. Tome I, strophes 1 à 110 by Denis Matringe [review]". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 111 (2): 408–409. doi:10.2307/604050. JSTOR 604050.
...and we come across scathing remarks about 'plebeians' such as Jats, Dogars and other agricultural castes.
Further reading
- Ibbetson, D (1916) [1883]. "The Dogars". Panjab castes. Lahore: Government Printing, Punjab. pp. 177–178.
- Rose, HA (1911). "Dogar". A glossary of the tribes and castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier province. Vol. II. Lahore: Samuel T Weston. pp. 244–246.
- Longworth Dames, M (1987) [1934]. "Fīrūzpūr". E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936. Vol. 3. Leiden: Brill. p. 114. ISBN 978-9-00408-265-6.