Pawera is a gotra

Gotra

In the Hindu society, the term Gotra broadly refers to people who are descendants in an unbroken male line from a common male ancestor. Panini defines gotra for grammatical purposes as apatyam pautraprabhrti gotram , which means "the word gotra denotes the progeny beginning with the son's son"...

 of Jats 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...

, 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...

. Pawera is one of the smaller Jat clans, found mostly in the Rupnagar

Rupnagar

Rupnagar is a city and a municipal council in Rupnagar district in the Indian state of Punjab. It was formerly known as Ropar. The town of Rupnagar is said to have been founded by a Raja called Rokeshar, who ruled during the 11th century and named it after his son Rup Sen. It is also the site of...

 district along with other jat clans like Lehal

Lehal

Lehal is a Jat family name. The word is also spelled as such as Lail, Lehel, Lehl, Lahil and Lel. Lehals are mainly found in the Punjab region of Pakistan and India.- Religion :Almost all the Lehal in Pakistan are Muslims...

, Gill

Gill (clan)

Gill is a gotra/surname of the Jat ethnicity found in Punjab. Though, to westerners, Gill seems like a familiar given name , the Gill surname does not have the same etymological origins. "Gill" stands out to be one of the most popular surnames of the Jat race, with population of Gills being resided...

, Sidhu

Sidhu

Sidhu is the most influential and prominent Jat/Jatt gotra .The Sidhu clan is mainly found in the Malwa region of Punjab state,Ganganagar district and the province of Punjab in Pakistan...

, Dhillon, etc..

Origin

There are many theories around the origin of the Paweras. The locals of the Hafizabad town seem to believe that the Pawera clan in this region was set up by two brothers who travelled from the Hafizabad

Hafizabad

Hafizabad is a city and tehsil of Hafizabad District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is situated at 32° 4′ N. and 73° 41′ E.- History :...

 district in western Punjab (now in 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...

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In general, there are many theories about the origin of the Jats. Jats are sometimes considered to be of Scythian (Saka), Indo-Iranian or Indo-Aryan stock in view of the similar physical features and common practices with one or the other of these groups.