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Punjabi Rajput, jatt, gujjar arain, awan etc or agricultural tribes of punjab are one ethnicity. They act more like tribes and are pretty much similar to each other genetically. Punjabi is ethnicity and historically Punjab had same name in different languages. Only bradari punjabis are real indigenous punjabis that have existed since the time of Gandhara. Porus was from Mandi Bahauddin, not Jhelum district. He was ethnically proto-punjabi, its not a mystery. All main indigenous bradaris names/label/title came about in last 1000 years but their ancestors have lived in punjab since time of Gandhara civilization.
Anyway this is poor thread, there are users on twitter doing much better job with sources on history of punjabi muslims after Islam and pre Islamic history of punjab. Like these guys
and many more
This thread is more of wikipedia like then anything serious.
There is a term used WAG. Wide-As$ Guess. When you say something about porus's DNA.its a WAG.. what was proto Punjabi? What was its composition. Noone can define today and who he was closer to jatt arain or khokhar.. we dont know...
Furthermore mandi bahaudin is not even accurate its a place near jalalpur sharif where the battle happened. But since it comes in district jehlum amd also name of the river (hydapses) I used it instead as mandi bahaudin didn't exist back then. There is no evidence porus hailed from the mandi bahaudin today.
Lastly the genetic diversity mitochondrial DNA is smaller in say pashtun tribes than between arain and jutt..or rajput and awan or mughal and gujjar..6 distinct dna schemes seen in Punjab. Punjab is more of a geographic and cultural identity . The distinct nature of the groups is obviously due to much stricter rules of Inter marriages practiced over centuries and distinct outside influences over time. That's also why the punjabi ethnicities are distinguishable by GED and other sites.