Wednesday, 6 March 2019
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਗੋਤਰਾਂ ਦੇ ਨਾਂ ਉਸ ਇਲਾਕੇ ਦੇ ਅਧਾਰ ਤੇ ਹਨ ਜਿਥੋਂ ਕਬੀਲਾ ਆਇਆ ਸੀ
TREHAN FROM TEHRAN
SEE HERE THE AREA FROM WHERE THE GOTRA ORIGINALLY CAME FROM
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Author: B.S.Goraya |
With the grace of Baba Nanak some of my researches in this field are of international repute. Thus often my young friends of FB and Whattsapp ask me as to what is the origin of Goraya people. Please note that the names of gotras are originally the names of tribes which were obsorbed in the respective Jaats (Castes). And further the name of a tribe or Kabila is often based on the area they migrated from. Our Punjab (West and East) is a conglomeration of people who migrated from West especially present Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and some from Iraq and Arab also. This happened roughly between 2000 to 3500 years ago.
We have very clear evidence of existence of Khatri people
in Iran at the time of Emperor Darius.
Some of the following Gotra names will prove my point: