Talk:Khetran

message: Definitely .. This article is mostly rubbish. 
Reference No. 6 .. is a fiction.  
The Actual entry is "Khetran a tribe settled in the Loralai District of Balochistan at the back of
the Laghari, Khosa, and Lund country. Their original settlement was
at Vahoa in the country of the Kasrdni of Dera Ismail Khan, where
many of them still live and hold land between the Kasrd^ni Baloch
(with whom they have long been at feud) and the river. But the
emperor Akbar drove out the main body of the tribe, and they took refuge in the Barkhan valley which is still held by the Ndhar sept of the
Khetrans as inferior proprietors, the Laghairis being its superior own-
ers. They are certainly not pure Baloch, and are held by many to be
Pathans, descended from Mi^na, brother of Tarin, the ancestor of tho
Abdalij and they do in some cases intermarry with Pathans. But
they confessedly resemble the Baloch in features, habits, and general
appearance, the names of their septs end in the Baloch patronymic
termination dni and they are now for all practical purposes a Baloch
tribe. It is probable that they are in reality a remnant of the original
Jat population ; they speak a dialect of their own called Khetrani
which is an Indian dialect closely allied with Sindhi, and in fact
probably a form of the Jatki speech of the lower Indus. Ihey are
the least warlike of all the Baloch tribes, capit il cultivators, and in
consequence very well-to-do. Their lands are generally divided into
large blocks held by numerous sharers, each proprietor holding
shares in many such blocks scattered about, in different v. The
tribe, as it now stands, is composed of four clans, of which the
Ganjura represents the original Khetran nucleus, while to them aro
affiliated the Dhariwal"^ or Ohacha vvho say that they are Dodai BalocH,
the Hasani, once an important Baloch tribe which was crushed Vjy
Nasir Khan, ilie great Khan of Kelat, and took refuge with the
Khetran of whom they are now almost independent, and the Nflhap
or Babar, who are by origin Lodi Pathans. The name, as Dames
observes, is undoubtedly derived from kheti' ' field.' "
For the year 2006-07, let us concentrate on upgrading the contents as decided: Wales to upgrade quality of Wiki. Thanks. --Bhadani 03:23, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
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message: You have confused Khetrans with Khatris. They have got only somewhat similiar name. The Khatris in Pakistan mainly comprise of Khawajas and the Sheikhs, Dont get confused bt similiar names. They origin as Balochs or Pathans may be disputed but it has nothing to do with Khatris. The culture and traditions are totally different from Punjabis the Khetrans have. (OmerKhetran (talk) 15:31, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Khetrans & Khatris

message: Hi OmerKhetran
Following up from your note on my talk page and responding to your deletion 
of cited content,
I have provided a link to the content ,page 631 from the book here
You can see it for yourself .
Intothefire (talk) 18:11, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm sorry if you feel that your reliable cited content was deleted but you should come out of your conceit a little bit and see what actually was deleted. And theres no need to reproduce it here, i saw it there the first time. My changes "said" that a separate section has been created and along with other references it has been moved there. It is present under the disputed origin header. Please next time see the full changes before making it personal.
OmerKhetran (talk) 19:06, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference from E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936 By M. Th. Houtsma

message: How can u consider khetrans to be indian when they use a persian word after their name, it is clear that they are  either Pashtun or baloch. Adilkhan12 (talk) 11:08, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  khitran is a persian word 

message: This edit redefined the Khetran as a Pashtun, rather than Baloch, tribe. Now, all references I've come across so far treat them as Baloch, and if indeed it is true – as written in the edit summary – that they are Pashtun who started  "adding baloch to [their] names", then this piece of information needs to be explained at greater length, with more context and in a balanced way (for example giving due weight to the view that they are, or at least have been regarded as, Baloch). Another thing that needs to be accounted for is why they speak an Indo-Aryan language (unlike with the Baloch, there is a strong association between Pashtun ethnicity and speaking Pashto). And , you need to provide references in the article text, giving fuller bibliographic details about the sources used (just the book title is not enough), see Help:Referencing for beginners. – Uanfala (talk) 13:11, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baloch or Pashtun?