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The Dogar are referenced in [[Waris Shah]]'s well-known story, ''[[Heer Ranjha]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Reviewed Work: Hīr Vāriṡ Śāh, poème panjabi du XVIIIe siècle: Introduction, translittération, traduction et commentaire. Tome I, strophes 1 à 110 by Denis Matringe |first=Peter |last=Gaeffke |journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society |volume=111 |issue=2 |date=April 1991 |pages=408–409 |doi=10.2307/604050 |jstor=604050 }}</ref> In the scene where Heer praises Ranjah to her father: {{quote|And Heer replied subtly, ‘My father, he is as learned as Solomon, and he can shave the very beard of Plato. He has cunning to trace out thefts and he speaks with wisdom in the assembly of the elders. He can decide thousands of disputes and he is as learned in wisdom as the Dogar Jats.' <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.casas.org.uk/papers/pdfpapers/hir.pdf|title=THE ADVENTURES OF HIR AND RANJHA Recounted in Panjabi by Waris Shah And translated into English by Charles Frederick Usborne, 1874 - 1919|last=Usborne|first=Charles|access-date=January 15, 2018}}</ref>}} |
The Dogar are referenced in [[Waris Shah]]'s well-known story, ''[[Heer Ranjha]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Reviewed Work: Hīr Vāriṡ Śāh, poème panjabi du XVIIIe siècle: Introduction, translittération, traduction et commentaire. Tome I, strophes 1 à 110 by Denis Matringe |first=Peter |last=Gaeffke |journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society |volume=111 |issue=2 |date=April 1991 |pages=408–409 |doi=10.2307/604050 |jstor=604050 }}</ref> In the scene where Heer praises Ranjah to her father: {{quote|And Heer replied subtly, ‘My father, he is as learned as Solomon, and he can shave the very beard of Plato. He has cunning to trace out thefts and he speaks with wisdom in the assembly of the elders. He can decide thousands of disputes and he is as learned in wisdom as the Dogar Jats.' <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.casas.org.uk/papers/pdfpapers/hir.pdf|title=THE ADVENTURES OF HIR AND RANJHA Recounted in Panjabi by Waris Shah And translated into English by Charles Frederick Usborne, 1874 - 1919|last=Usborne|first=Charles|access-date=January 15, 2018}}</ref>}} |
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{{quote| 'they are tall, handsome, and sinewy, and are remarkable for having, almost without exception, large acquiline noses. They are fanciful and violent, and tenacious of what they consider their rights, though susceptible to kindness, and not wanting in courage; they appear to have been always troublesome subjects, and too fond of their own free mode of life to willingly take service as soldiers. The Jewish face which is found among the Dogars, and in which they resemble the Afghans, is very remarkable, and makes it probable that there is very little Chauhan blood in their veins, notwithstanding the fondness with which they attempt to trace their connection with that ancient family of Rajputs. Like the Gujars and Naipals they are great thieves, and prefer pasturing cattle to cultivating. Their favourite crime is cattle-stealing.' <ref>{{Cite web|url= https://archive.org/details/glossaryoftribes03rose/page/n518/mode/1up?ref=ol&view=theater&q=Dogar |title= A glossary of the tribes and castes of the Punjab and North-West frontier province |last=Rose|first=H. A. (Horace Arthur), 1867-1933; Ibbetson, Denzil, Sir, 1847-1908; Maclagan, Edward Douglas, Sir, b. 1864}}</ref>}} |
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Dogar is a community historically found in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. They were nomadic livestock herders who became owners of land in the relatively arid central area where cultivation required vigorous work. Unable to adapt, they eventually lost their position with the rise of more industrious agriculturist communities, notably the Jats.[1]
In the late 17th century, the Dogars in the faujdari of Lakhi Jangal, in Multan, were among the tribes that challenged the authority of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.[2]
The Dogar are referenced in Waris Shah's well-known story, Heer Ranjha.[3] In the scene where Heer praises Ranjah to her father:
And Heer replied subtly, ‘My father, he is as learned as Solomon, and he can shave the very beard of Plato. He has cunning to trace out thefts and he speaks with wisdom in the assembly of the elders. He can decide thousands of disputes and he is as learned in wisdom as the Dogar Jats.' [4]
Sir Henry Lawrence, who knew the Dogars well, writes of them,
'they are tall, handsome, and sinewy, and are remarkable for having, almost without exception, large acquiline noses. They are fanciful and violent, and tenacious of what they consider their rights, though susceptible to kindness, and not wanting in courage; they appear to have been always troublesome subjects, and too fond of their own free mode of life to willingly take service as soldiers. The Jewish face which is found among the Dogars, and in which they resemble the Afghans, is very remarkable, and makes it probable that there is very little Chauhan blood in their veins, notwithstanding the fondness with which they attempt to trace their connection with that ancient family of Rajputs. Like the Gujars and Naipals they are great thieves, and prefer pasturing cattle to cultivating. Their favourite crime is cattle-stealing.' [5]
References
- ^ Chaudhuri, B. B. (2008). Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India. Vol. 8. Pearson Education India. pp. 194–195. ISBN 978-8-13171-688-5.
- ^ Singh, Chetan (1988). "Centre and Periphery in the Mughal State: The Case of Seventeenth-Century Panjab". Modern Asian Studies. 22 (2): 299–318. doi:10.1017/s0026749x00000986. JSTOR 312624.
- ^ Gaeffke, Peter (April 1991). "Reviewed Work: Hīr Vāriṡ Śāh, poème panjabi du XVIIIe siècle: Introduction, translittération, traduction et commentaire. Tome I, strophes 1 à 110 by Denis Matringe". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 111 (2): 408–409. doi:10.2307/604050. JSTOR 604050.
- ^ Usborne, Charles. "THE ADVENTURES OF HIR AND RANJHA Recounted in Panjabi by Waris Shah And translated into English by Charles Frederick Usborne, 1874 - 1919" (PDF). Retrieved January 15, 2018.
- ^ Rose, H. A. (Horace Arthur), 1867-1933; Ibbetson, Denzil, Sir, 1847-1908; Maclagan, Edward Douglas, Sir, b. 1864. "A glossary of the tribes and castes of the Punjab and North-West frontier province".
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Further reading
- E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936. BRILL. 1987. p. 114. ISBN 978-9-00408-265-6.