Kaler Kler or Clair or any other variation which remains phonetically identical, is a clan of Jats found in northern areas of India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 and Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. They belong mostly to the Sikh

Sikh

A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism. It primarily originated in the 15th century in the Punjab region of South Asia. The term "Sikh" has its origin in Sanskrit term शिष्य , meaning "disciple, student" or शिक्ष , meaning "instruction"...

 faith. In India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 they are found in Punjab

Punjab (India)

Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...

 (more particularly Amritsar

Amritsar

Amritsar is a city in the northern part of India and is the administrative headquarters of Amritsar district in the state of Punjab, India. The 2001 Indian census reported the population of the city to be over 1,500,000, with that of the entire district numbering 3,695,077...

, Tarn Taran

Tarn Taran

Tarn Taran may refer to:*Tarn Taran Sahib, a city in Tarn Taran district, Punjab, India*Tarn Taran district, a district in Punjab, India*Tarn Taran...

, Gurdaspur

Gurdaspur

Gurdaspur is a city in the state of Punjab, situated in the northwest part of the Republic of India. It is located in the center of and is the administrative head of Gurdaspur District. It was the location of a fort which was famous for the siege it sustained in 1712 from the Mughals...

, Jalandhar

Jalandhar

Jalandhar is a city in Jalandhar District in the state of Punjab, India. It is located 144 km northwest of the state capital, Chandigarh...

 and Hoshiarpur

Hoshiarpur

Hoshiarpur is a city and a municipal council in Hoshiarpur district in the Indian state of Punjab. It was founded, according to tradition, during the early part of the fourth century. In 1809 it was occupied by the forces of Maharaja Karanvir Singh and was united into the greater state of Punjab....

), the Meerut district in Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...

 and the Sikar & shri Ganganagar district  in Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

, Bhiwani and Karnal district in Haryana

Haryana

Haryana is a state in India. Historically, it has been a part of the Kuru region in North India. The name Haryana is found mentioned in the 12th century AD by the apabhramsha writer Vibudh Shridhar . It is bordered by Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the north, and by Rajasthan to the west and south...

. Balkara is a village in CH. Dadri of Bhiwani district known as Kalheran Ka Gaam (A village of Kalher's). In Pakistan they are based in the district Gujrat

Gujrat

Gujrat is a city in Pakistan. It is the capital of Gujrat District and the Gujrat Tehsil subdivision in the Punjab Province. People living in Gujrat refer to themselves as Gujratis, which sometimes leads to confusion with people from the Indian state of Gujarat which adjoins Pakistan...

, Gujranwala

Gujranwala

Gujranwala is a industrial city in the north-east of the Punjab province. It is the sixth largest city in Pakistan with a population of approximately 2,661,360 as on 24 June 2011...

 of Punjab. They can also be found in Abbottabad

Abbottabad

Abbottabad is a city located in the Hazara region of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Pakistan. The city is situated in the Orash Valley, northeast of the capital Islamabad and east of Peshawar at an altitude of and is the capital of the Abbottabad District...

 and Faisalabad

Faisalabad

Faisalabad , formerly known as Lyallpur, is the third largest metropolis in Pakistan, the second largest in the province of Punjab after Lahore, and a major industrial center in the heart of Pakistan. Before the foundation of the city in 1880, the area was very thinly populated. The population has...

 in Punjab

Punjab (Pakistan)

Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...

, Pakistan.
Kaler is also a clan of the ad dharmi community in western punjab. they are found in the villages of Jalandhar district. Many famous leather businessmen of kaler clan live in Bootan mandi of Jalandhar. Buland Pur is a village on the north side of Jalandhar entirely of kaler ad dharmis. another village named after the clan name is dhahan kaleran in jalandhar district. According to Dr Pema Ram the Churu

Churu

Churu is a town in the desert region of Rajasthan state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of Churu District. It lies in the Thar Desert on the National Highway-65 connecting Pali to Ambala and is a junction station on the railway line to Bikaner...

 town in Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

 was founded by Kaler Jats and it was earlier known as Kalera Bas.

Villages with Kaler people (Punjab)

• Kaler pind, Bagrian pind (near Tarn Taran, District Amritsar)
• Tut Sher Singh,Punjab, Balbir Singh Kler Pind
• Barundi (Ludhiana District)
• Bhojemajra in Ropar distt
• Jattana Ucha (District Fatehgarh sahib)
• Akhara (District Ludhiana)
• Buland Pur (District Jalandhar)
• Nussi (District Jalandhar)
• Dhahaan Kaleraan (District Jalandhar)
• Nanaksar Kaleran (District Moga)
• Raikot (District Ludhiana)
• Lalowal (District Gurdaspur)
• Churchak (District Moga)
• Kaler (District Moga)
• Kaler Kalan (District Gurdaspur)
• Khuni Kaler (District Gurdaspur)
• Bjurgwal (District Gurdaspur)
• Kanjhla (District Sangrur)
• Dhariwal Kaler (District Amritsar)
• Kakral kalan(District Ludhiana)
• Amargarh District Fatehgarh Sahib(Khamano)
• Zira (District firozepur)
• Hathur(District Ludhiana)
• Parjian kalan(District Jalandhar)
• Ranian
• Bhojowal (District Jalandhar)
• lohatbaddi (disst. ludhiana)
• Herian(Near Behlol Pur)
• Kakrala Kalan
• Kakrala Khurd
• Uchha Jatana,
• Jattana, near Jagraon (District Ludhiana)
• Few villages in District Ludhiana and in many parts of Bathinda and Zirakpur too.
• Balpur (District Hoshiarpur)
• Lohgarh (District Amritsar,Teh BaBa Bakala)

Villages with Kaler people in Rajasthan

District Shri Ganganagar

• Anupgarh,SURATGARH 335804

Kaler'a di dhani in village 1PGM of anupgarh

District Sikar

• Alakhpura Godaran
• Haradyalpura (Near Ramgarh Shekhawati)
• Kaler ki Dhani
• Khinwasar
• Laxmangarh
• Nethwa
• Sikar

District Jhunjunu

• Sotwara (vikash kaler)
• Kalera ka Bas

District Hanumangarh & Churu

• Bhangarh In Bhadra tehsil
• Ramsara Tal in Sadulpur tehsil

Villages with Kaler people in Haryana

Vill: Lalhari Kalan, Distt: Yamuna Nagar, Rakesh Kumar- 9896305150
Vill: JOGIWARA, Distt: Yamuna Nagar, Vijay kumar- 9050197332

Villages with Kaler people in (U.P.)

• Gandhu Nagla (District Ghaziabad..Tehsil..Garhmukteshwar)
• Sadullapur (District Merut)

Nagalia bhadur pur (District J.P Nagar near moradabad)

• Bhawalpur Bansi (District Moradabad) Satendra singh 09837915555/ All are Kaler at this village.

Village of kaler gotra (sinh mar kaler)
Vill: Mirpur, teh ; naraingarh, Dist ; Ambala (Haryana) and Chhoti Kohri in same tehsil & district

Prominent Kalers/Klers

• Major General H.S. Kler - Indian Army (Awarded Ati Vishisht Seva Medal for role in 1965 Indo-Pak war, and then Maha Vir Chakra in 1971 war).
• Subedar Major Sohan Singh Kaler- Winner of IOM (Indian Order of Merit, precursor to Victoria Cross for native soldiers) in WW-I.
• Subedar Isher Singh Kaler (34th Sikh Pioneer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/34th_Sikh_Pioneers) - Got Jublee Medal in WW-I.