Avestan and sanskrit are different branches of same language, nevertheless i was pointing out the said foreign origin of veda, which is not the case, since noone outside India spoke indo aryan language.
I am not disputing that clans are not shared, the point i am making that the clans assimilated into one of these profession and later called themselves gujjar, rajput and jats.
First came the caste(gujjar, rajput, jats) than clans(gotras) assimilated into one of these castes.
In areas i live, gujjars and ahirs are known to be related, also gujjars are slanged as milkman.
Agree on Rajputs, mount abu is where i think agnivansha started.
A mere look on the population centre of these group can tell their migration order. Yadavas are concentrated in eastern up, gujjars...
I will take words of my elders over you. It is very much based on profession.
Jat is synonym for farmers, gujjar for cow keepers and rajput for mercenary. None of them originally from Punjab. Jat came from sindh, Rajput says their forefathers were born in mount abu Rajasthan, gujjars came much...
Jat and gujjar were titles originally based on profession, this is like 2500 years before. The caste system itself was based on the profession and it was allowed to change your caste by changing profession. Later on, it became rigid and inter caste marriage was banned and caste became an...
lots of poorly educated historian in this thread.
Rajputana centerd around Punjab :lol:, and people come to Rajasthan to see rajput forts.
Leaving aside punjabi sikhs, rest of punjabi kaum was never able to produce a single ruler, always ruled by others.
Taking part in some activity; sport/adventure will definitely help. I prefer riding bike, at speed, make me feel more connected with myself, also teach me how important is life, one mistake and it's all over.
Try reading my post again why do you think i claim otherwise?
You carry surname of your father's not mother's, so paternal lineage is what matters.
One can also say they are closest to those ethnicities in the whole world, a matter of personal choice, how you perceive it.
I don't want to meet...
That can happen due to migration also, when someone is accepted asaone of it's own, let's say you adopt some arab, later he will call himself a punjabi or whatever tribe you belong to.
Y dna pass from father to son unaltered. It can tell you how closest you are to one group/ tribe or the other. You look for y dna haplogroup which act like genetic markers for a particular tribe/ group. There are haplogroup which are only found among Indians and absent which means although all...