Bhullar

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Jat Clan: Bhullar
Distribution	Punjab (India), Punjab (Pakistan) and Haryana
Descended from:	Tatars
Branches:	None
Religion	Sikhism and Islam
Languages	Punjabi, Saraiki and Haryanvi
Surnames:	Bhullar

Bhullar (Punjabi: ਭੁੱਲਰ, Hindi: भूलर , Saraiki: بھلر) is a Jat gotra or clan found in the Punjab region of (North) India and (East) Pakistan.

There are different views on how the Bhullars entered the Punjab. According to Nijjar (2008), the Jat clans moved from central Asia to India during the period between the 5th and the 9th century. According to Tod (1829), for centuries a few Jat tribes lived in co-existence in the current Punjab, while a large number of Jat tribes moved from Rajasthan to Punjab and other areas of India. Ibbetson (2002) noted that Bhullar's, Maan's and Hayer's are believed to be the original settlers of the Punjab, gotras without entering Punjab through the Rajasthan route as done by the other Jat gotras. Bhullar and Mann were two brothers. Bhullars of Western Punjab, Haryana Rajasthan consider themselves to be the brothers of the Maans, and Heer gotras(clan).

Thousands of years ago ancestors of Bhullar, Maan and Hayer, lived in Iran and Turkistan. Sir Lepel Griffin (1865) was of the opinion that the Bhullars came into the Punjab region from the present central Asia. Most of the Jat tribes entered the Punjab in the 5th century. There are many theories about the origin of the Jats. Jats are sometimes considered to be of Scythian (Saka), Indo-European, Indo-Iranian or Indo-Aryan stock in view of the similar physical features and common practices with one or the other of these groups.

History

Historically, Bhullars were settled latest of all mainly in the current Majha region of Punjab in large numbers, but were found in the area around Lahore, Multan (in Pakistan) and Amritsar. Bhullar population in the current Majha region of Punjab India remained constant. Bhullars have ancestral place of worship called ‘Baba Shid’ in Jind riast currently district in Haryana, and in the Sangrur and Rampura in Bathinda District of Punjab India. After the partition of India in 1947, the Bhullars were scattered all across the Punjab region. Many also moved out of Pakistan during the divide between India and Pakistan. They moved to countries sucha as Kenya ; mainly in Nairobi. where they practiced farming, wood-work and many other skills. Ruins related to Bhullars are spread over an area of twelve miles near in the area of Bahawalpur in Pakistan.

Geographical Distribution

In Punjab (India) Bhullar village name is common and found in various districts such as Muktsar, Jalandhar, Moga districts. Bhullars are evenly distributed in the state of Punjab with large concentration in Amritsar, Tarn Taran, Gurdaspur, Ferozpur, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Muktsar, Moga, Faridkot, Bathinda Bhullar village name kotra kouraand in rampura area, Sangrur, and Patiala. Bhullars have a huge concentration in the Majha region mostly around the city of Amritsar in Punjab (India). In Pakistan Bhullars are found in the Punjab, places such as Lahore , Bahawalpur , Sahiwal , Vehari, Layyah and Narowal district and also in Dera Ismail Khan districts of Kheber Pakhtunkhaw province. In Sialkot Bhullars have large concentration in Pasrur, Daska, khanpur (tehsil), Bhullar Mairay Wala, Bhular Rohi Wala, Bhullar Sharif and Bhullar. In East Punjab (India), and Haryana Bhullars are virtually all Sikh. A bhullar family does live in Sindh Pakistan.They live in TandoAllahyar and the head of the family was late Ab.Rasheed died in 1995.This family migrated from Batala in 1902. A Bhullar family lives in Patti(Tarn Taran) moved from Mehdipur village. Kashmir Singh Bhullar is the head of the family. Another large Bhullar family lives in Richmond, British Columbia (Canada) where they have their own wrestling gym and have produced several Champion wrestlers. The head of this Bhullar family is Late. Pritam Singh Bhullar who is the father of Avtar Singh Bhullar. And Avtar Singh Bhullar was the first wrestler in the family later taught the art of wrestling to his son Arjan Singh Bhullar and nephew Jagroop Singh Bhullar. In 2010, Arjan Singh Bhullar, wrestling from Canada, won the gold medal in the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games.Wrestling_at_the_2010_Commonwealth_Games

See also

• List of Jat Clans of West Punjab

Further reading

• Griffin, Sir Lepen H, (1865). The Panjab chiefs : historical and biographical notices of the principal families in the territories under the Panjab government. Chronicle Press, Lahore.
• Ibbetson, Denzil, (2002). Panjab castes. Low Price Publications. ISBN 81-7536-290-1.
• Nijjar, B.S., (2008). Origins and History of Jats and Other Allied Nomadic Tribes of India, 900 B.C. - 1947 A.D. New Delhi, Atlantic.
• Rose, H.A. Denzil Ibbetson, Edward Maclagan (reprint 1990). Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North West Frontier Province. Asian Educational Services, India, ISBN 81-206-0505-5.
• Tod, Col James, (1829, 1832). Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India, v. 1, 2. London, Smith, Elder. Reprint New Delhi, Munshiram Publishers (2001), ISBN 81-7069-128-1.