Dogar Explained
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. They have been classified as a branch of the Rajput[2] (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.[3] In addition to cultivating crops such as jowar (millet) and wheat, they seem partly to have continued pastoral practices, sometimes as nomads.[4] The arid conditions proved challenging, especially in the light of competition from peoples with more established agricultural ways (notably the Jats), and over the centuries the Dogar people developed a long-lasting reputation for marauding behaviour,[3] such as animal raiding and other types of theft, including highway robbery.[4]
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.[5]
In literature
In the Sufi poet Waris Shah's tragic romance of 1766, Heer Ranjha, Dogars are scorned as commoners (along with Jats and other agricultural groups).[6]
See also
Further reading
- Book: Ibbetson . D . Denzil Ibbetson . The Dogars . https://archive.org/details/panjabcastes00ibbe/page/176/mode/2up?q=%22474.+The+Dogars%22 . Panjab castes . Panjab Castes . 1883 . 1916 . Lahore . Government Printing, Punjab . 177–178.
- Encyclopedia: Dogar . Horace Arthur Rose . A glossary of the tribes and castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier province . Rose . HA . 1911 . II . Lahore . Samuel T Weston . 244–246.
- Book: Longworth Dames . M . Mansel Longworth Dames . Fīrūzpūr . E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936 . 3 . Encyclopaedia of Islam . Leiden . Brill . 1987 . 1934 . 978-9-00408-265-6 . 114 . https://books.google.com/books?id=xd5VonTOppMC&pg=PA114.
Notes and References
- John . A . 2009 . Two dialects one region: a sociolinguistic approach to dialects as identity markers . MA thesis . Ball State University . https://web.archive.org/web/20221105190645/https://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/bitstream/handle/123456789/193541/Ajohn_2009-3_BODY.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y . 5 November 2022 . dead.
- Fiaz . HM . Akhtar . S . Rind . AA . Socio-cultural condition of South Punjab: a case of Muzaffargarh District . International Research Journal of Education and Innovation . 2021 . 2 . 2 . 21–40 . 10.53575/irjei.3-v2.2(21)21-40 . free .
- Book: Chaudhuri, BB . Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India . 8 . Pearson Education India . 2008 . 978-8-13171-688-5 . 194–195 .
- Singh . C . Chetan Singh . Conformity and conflict: tribes and the 'agrarian system' of Mughal India . The Indian Economic & Social History Review . 1988 . 25 . 3 . 319–340 . 10.1177/001946468802500302 .
- Centre and periphery in the Mughal State: the case of seventeenth-century Panjab . Singh C . Modern Asian Studies . 22 . 2 . 1988 . 313 . 312624 . 10.1017/s0026749x00000986. 144152388 .
- Hīr Vāriṡ Śāh, poème panjabi du XVIIIe siècle: Introduction, translittération, traduction et commentaire. Tome I, strophes 1 à 110 by Denis Matringe [review] . P . Gaeffke . Journal of the American Oriental Society . 111 . 2 . 1991 . 408–409 . 10.2307/604050 . 604050 . ...and we come across scathing remarks about 'plebeians' such as Jats, Dogars and other agricultural castes..
