Sidhu | |
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Jat clan | |
Location | Punjab region |
Jathera | Khiwa Rao [1] |
Parent tribe | Bhatti, Gill Jats |
Branches | Brar (Baryar : which means brave and strong warriors) |
Language | Punjabi |
Religion | Sikhism • Hinduism |
Surnames | Sidhu |
Sidhu (Punjabi: ਸਿੱਧੂ (Gurmukhi)) is a Punjabi Jat clan found in Punjab.[2][3][4][5][6]
During Britsh Raj Historian like HA.Rose and Alexander Cunningham note an account of local bards(bhatts) history state,the clan descends from a Bhatti clan progenitor named Sidhu Rao, whom had maternal alliance with Gill Jats.[7] Their descendants are thus the Sidhu Jats.[7] The Sidhu-Brar clan is descended from Bhatti tribe of Yadava through Rawal Jaisal in ancestry of Legendary Shalivahana.[8] [9](Scythian Lineage)
The Sidhu clan held sway in the Ferozepur area in the late mediaeval period.[10] Chaudhary Phul of the Sidhu-Brar clan established the Phulkian Misl, one of the misls (confederacies) of the Sikh Confederacy. His descendants, the Phulkian Maharajas, became the kings of the princely states of Faridkot, Jind, Nabha, Malaudh and Patiala.[11][12]