Khokhar
Khokhar (खोखर), Khokar (खोकर), Khokkar (खोक्कर), Khonkhar (खोंखर) is a gotra/clan of Rajputs found in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in India and Pakistan.
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[edit]- Today the Khokhars are Split up into Muslim, Rajput and Jat sections. Originally they were all Hindus. Both Minhaj Siraj and Hasan Nizami describe them as infidels.“ The tale of their resistance to Islam and conversion to it synchronises with the Muslim invasions of India.
- Lal, K. S. (1995). Growth of scheduled tribes and castes in medieval India.
- Great plunder was taken and many captives, so that five Hindu [Khokhar] captives could be bought for a dinar.
- The Khokhars were not annihilated in this affair by any means, and gave great trouble in after years...
- Minhaj "Tabakat-i-nasiri" also in Lal, K. S. (1995). Growth of scheduled tribes and castes in medieval India.
- Mahmud protected his flanks with entrenchments and instead of following his usual impetuous tactics strove to entice the enemy to attack him in his own strong position. In this he succeeded and the Hindus attacked on December 31. A force of 30,000 Khokars, bareheaded and barefooted and armed with strange weapons, charged both his flanks simultaneously, passed over his trenches, and did such execution among his troops that he was meditating a retreat when a fortunate accident decided the day in his favour.
- "The Cambridge History Of India Volume III" also in Lal, K. S. (1995). Growth of scheduled tribes and castes in medieval India.
- The Kokars were completely defeated, and, " in that country there remained not an inhabitant to light a fire." " Much spoil in slaves and weapons, beyond all enumeration, fell into the possession of the victors."
- Elliot and Dowson II also in Lal, K. S. (1995). Growth of scheduled tribes and castes in medieval India.
- For instance, when Muhammad Ghauri and Qutbuddin Aibak mounted a combined attack on the Khokhars of the Salt Range (Koh-i-Jud), “great plunder was taken and many captives, so that five Hindu [Khokhars] captives could be bought for a dinar”. Captives were so plentiful that they were also sent “to sell in Khurasan, not long after.”
- Lal, K. S. (1994). Muslim slave system in medieval India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 10, (quoting Hasan Nizami, Taj-ul-Maasir, E. D., II; Minhaj)
