Shekha
Shekha (शेखा) Shaikha (शैखा) is a Muslim Jat clan found in Pakistan. Shekha clan is found in Afghanistan.[1]
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History
H.A. Rose writes that Shekha and Jasrat appear as father and son in the genealogy of the Khokhars : see tree given in the vernacular settlement report of the Gujrat district, by Mirza Azim Beg, 1865. (Tabaqāt-i-Akbari, pp. 18, 19, 127, 147 and 600; Rauzat-ut- Tāhirin, Elliot, I, p. 301; Muntakhib-ut-Tawārikh, p. 18; Ibn-i-Asir Elliot, II, p. 433; Tabaqāt-i-Nāsiri, pp. 123-4, etc.) [2].
H.A. Rose[3]explains the term Shaikha. Shaikha was the general name by which the chiefs of the tribes styled themselves, because " being Hindus by descent, they had become converts to Islam," Hence Jasrath is often styled Jasrath Shaikha.— Raverty's Notes, p. 367.
Distribution in Pakistan
According to 1911 census the Shekha were the principal Muslim Jat clan in Multan District with population of Shekha (674). [4]
Another Shekha, name of a village in Barnala district
Shekha Barnala village
Notable persons
References
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, The Oriental University Institute, Woking, 1891, p.120
- ↑ A glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province By H.A. Rose Vol II/G,p.275
- ↑ A glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province By H.A. Rose Vol II/K,p.545 f.n.
- ↑ Census Of India 1911 Volume xiv Punjab Part 2 by Pandit Narikishan Kaul
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