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Jandwa
Jandwa is a village in Ratangarh tehsil in Churu district in Rajasthan. It is situated at a distance of 25 km from Churu in the west direction. The village was founded about 450 years ago by Jandu ( Janu (clan)) Jats, who moved elsewhere and Khichar Jats settled here. Khichar Jats came to this place from Sidhmukh Sidhmukh is a town and the tehsil headquarters in the Churu district of Rajasthan, India. References {{Rajasthan-geo-stub Cities and towns in Churu district ... Now there are so many youngsters of the village are serving proudly in defence forces and so many are doctors,engineers, teachers and businessman. Jat Gotras in the village The population of the village Jandwa is about 500 families out of them Khichar is the only Jat gotra with population of 250 families. There is only one other Jat family of Ruhil. References * Interview dated 19-02-2007 with , Resident Jandwa, Tehsil Ratangarh, District Churu, Rajasthan (India). Villages in Churu district< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janu (clan)
Janu may refer to one of the following: *Janu, a clan of Jats originally from Jandwa Jandwa is a village in Ratangarh tehsil in Churu district in Rajasthan. It is situated at a distance of 25 km from Churu in the west direction. The village was founded about 450 years ago by Jandu ( Janu (clan)) Jats, who moved elsewhere a ... * Janů, Czech surname {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajasthan
Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern side, where it comprises most of the wide and inhospitable Thar Desert (also known as the Great Indian Desert) and shares a border with the Pakistani provinces of Punjab to the northwest and Sindh to the west, along the Sutlej- Indus River valley. It is bordered by five other Indian states: Punjab to the north; Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to the northeast; Madhya Pradesh to the southeast; and Gujarat to the southwest. Its geographical location is 23.3 to 30.12 North latitude and 69.30 to 78.17 East longitude, with the Tropic of Cancer passing through its southernmost tip. Its major features include the ruins of the Indus Valley civilisation at Kalibangan and Balathal, the Dilwara Temples, a Jain pilgrimage site at Rajasthan's only hill stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jandu
Jandu is a Jat Sikh surname. The Jandu surname derives from the Sikh warriors confederation (military group) from North India, Punjab. Jandu Sikh is the community encompassing members of the JatBrard, G. S. S. (2007). East of Indus: My Memories of Old Punjab. India: Hemkunt Publishers. Sikh clan of Punjab India. Traditionally, the Jandu clans had occupations such as farming, carpentry and blacksmiths, some then later diversified into the steel and construction industries. As such skills were in demand, Indian families moved to East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania) to work on the construction and development of the railways, as well as other related roles which required those skills. Due to the creation of the East Africa Protectorate in 1895, many Indians migrated from India to East Africa from 1895 to the 1960s. However, when Kenya gained independence on 1 June 1963, some Indian families who were situated in East Africa had the choice to either acquire Kenyan citizens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jat People
The Jat people ((), ()) are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subsequently into the Delhi Territory, northeastern Rajputana, and the western Gangetic Plain in the 17th and 18th centuries. Quote: "Hiuen Tsang gave the following account of a numerous pastoral-nomadic population in seventh-century Sin-ti (Sind): 'By the side of the river.. f Sind along the flat marshy lowlands for some thousand li, there are several hundreds of thousands very great manyfamilies ..hichgive themselves exclusively to tending cattle and from this derive their livelihood. They have no masters, and whether men or women, have neither rich nor poor.' While they were left unnamed by the Chinese pilgrim, these same people of lower Sind were called Jats' or 'Jats of the wastes' by the Arab geographers. The Jats, as 'dromedary men.' we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
