Char or Chawara clan
I reproduce from [Wiki]An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan[/Wiki] (Pages 165-166) By H. W. Bellew which gives some interesting information.
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The next tribe of the Sharkhbun branch of the Sarbani Afghan is the Shirani, called also [Wiki]Char[/Wiki] ([Wiki]Chawara[/Wiki] or Chaora Rajput). The Chaora, according to Colonel Tod ([Wiki]Annals of Rajasthan[/Wiki]), was once a renowned tribe in the history of India, though its name, he says, is now scarcely known, and its origin is veiled in obscurity. It belongs neither to the Solar race nor the Lunar race, and is probably of Skythic descent. The name is unknown in Hindustan, and is confined, with many others originating beyond the Indus, to the peninsula of Saurashtra. If foreign to India proper, continues Tod, its establishment must have been at a remote period, as individuals of the tribe intermarried with the Surajbansi ancestry of the present princes of Mewar, when this family were the lords of Balabhi. The capital of the Chaora was the insular Deobandar, on the coast of Saurashtra, and the temple of Somnath, with many others on this coast, dedicated to Balnath, is attributed to this tribe of the Saura or worshippers of the sun. It was Vena Raja or Banraj, prince of Deo, who, 746, A.D., laid the foundation of Anhalwara, which his dynasty ruled for one hundred and eighty-four years, when Bhojraj, the seventh from the founder and the last of the Chaora, was deposed, 931 A.D., by his own daughter's son, Mulraj of the Solanki tribe. Mulraj ruled Anhalwara for fifty-eight years. During the reign of his son and successor, Chawand or Chaond Rae, called Jamand by Muhammadan historians, Mahmud of Grhazni invaded the kingdom of Anhalwara, and drained it of its immense riches, for Anhalwara was at that time the entrepot of the productions of the eastern and the western hemispheres.
[Page-166]:Anhalwara recovered fully from the devastations of Mahmud, and we find Sid Rai Jay Sing, the seventh from the founder, and who ruled from 1094 to 1145 A.D., at the head of the richest if not the most warlike kingdom of India. Twenty-two principalities at one time owned his power, from the Karnatic to the base of the Himalaya. His successor was displaced by the Chohan, Prithvi Raja, who set on the throne Komarpal, who then, quitting his own Chohan tribe, entered that of the Solanki. Both Sid Rae and Komarpal were patrons of Buddhism. The end of Komarpal's reign was disturbed by the lieutenants of Shahabuddin ; and his successor, Ballo Maldeo, closed his dynasty in 1228 A.D., when the Bhagela dynasty, descendants of Sid Rai, succeeded. Under the Bhagela rule dilapidation from religious persecution were repaired, Somnath rose from its ruins, and the kingdom of the Bahlika Rae was attaining its pristine magnificence, when, under Gahla Karan, the fourth prince, Alauddin invaded and annihilated the kingdom of Anhalwara, sacked and plundered the rich cities and fertile plains of Guzerat and Saurashtra. The statues of Buddha were everywhere cast down and mutilated, the books of his religion everywhere burned and destroyed. The city of Anhalwara was razed to the ground and its very foundations dug up. The remnants of the Solanki dynasty were scattered over the land, and this portion of India remained for upwards of a century without any paramount head, when its splendour was renovated, and its foundations rebuilt by Saharan, Tak, a convert to Islam, under the name of Zapar Khan, who, with the title of Muzaffir, ascended the throne of Guzerat, which he left to his son, Ahmed who founded Ahmadabad.
I have made this lengthy extract from Tod's "Annals of Rajasthan," because it throws much light upon the affinities of several of the modern Pathan tribes of the Suleman range and Indus frontier. The Chawand Rae, called Jamand by Muhammadan writers, is evidently the source of the Zamand division of the Kharshbun branch of the Sarabani Afghan; and Komarpal's quitting his own Chohan tribe and entering that of Solanki, is clearly the origin of the Afghan account of Shirani's quitting the Sarabani and entering the Ghurghushti branch of the Afghan nation.
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Notes - The objective to quote this passage from book is to highlight-
1. There is mention of four Jat clans : [Wiki]Char[/Wiki], [Wiki]Chawara[/Wiki], [Wiki]Saharan[/Wiki], [Wiki]Tak[/Wiki]
2. The statues of Buddha were everywhere cast down and mutilated shows that Buddhism was their faith.
3. Komarpal's quitting his own Chohan tribe and entering that of Solanki shows that the tribes could be changed at that time.
4. It shows affinities of several of the modern Pathan tribes of the Suleman range and Indus frontier
5. During the long centuries of the rule of the Chaora and succeeding dynasties the whole of the eastern portion of Afghanistan was mainly peopled by Indian tribes of Skythic descent, who came into the country at different periods and probably from different directions also.