Wikipedia:Khokhar Jats

Khokhar Jats are a Jat Community of Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent who currently reside in Punjab and adjoining areas of India and Pakistan. The word Khokhar itself means "Bloodthirsty" or "Bloody" and its origin is from Persian Language. In India, Khokhars Jata are generally Hindu or Sikh while in Pakistan they are Muslims. The Muslim Khokhar Jats are believed to have converted from Hinduism to Islam after they came under the influence of Baba Fariduddin Ganjshakar. The Persian historian of the medieval period, Firishta, has called the then Khokhar Jat people a "barbaric caste without religion and morality". Khokhar is an ancient gotra/clan of Jats found in Punjab, India, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in India. It is an important Jat tribe of Punjab, Pakistan.

History
Muhammad Ghori undertook many campaigns against the Khokhar Jats in Punjab before he was killed by an assailant known as Ramlal Khokhar Jat in the village of Dhamiak located in the Salt Range in March 1206.

In 1240 CE, Razia, daughter of Shams-ud-din Iltutmish, and her husband, Altunia, attempted to recapture the throne from her brother, Muizuddin Bahram Shah. She is reported to have led an army composed mostly of mercenaries from the Khokhar Jats of Punjab.

From 1246 to 1247, Balban mounted an expedition as far as the Salt Range to eliminate the Khokhar Jats which he saw as a threat.

Modern era
In reference to the British Raj's recruitment policies in the Punjab, vis-à-vis the British Indian Army, Tan Tai Yong remarks: "The choice of Muslims was not merely one of physical suitability. As in the case of the Sikhs, recruiting authorities showed a clear bias in favor of the dominant landowning tribes of the region, and recruitment of Punjabi Muslims Jats was limited to those who belonged to tribes of high social standing or reputation - the 'blood proud' and once politically dominant aristocracy of the tract. Consequently, socially dominant Muslim tribes such as the Gakkhars, Janjuas and Awans, and a few Another Jats tribes, concentrated in the Rawalpindi and Jhelum districts, ... accounted for more than ninety percent of Punjabi Muslim Jats recruits."