Sehdev is one of the many last names of early Jat

Jat people

The Jat people are a community of traditionally non-elite tillers and herders in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subsequently into the Delhi Territory,...

 tribes that played an important historical role in 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"...

 history who later adopted Sikhism. They share their family tree with Mair Rajputs

Mair Rajputs

The Mair are a Sunar caste found in northern India, which identify themselves as Mair Rajputs.Though they are the traditional goldsmiths of North India, now many are also landowners, involved in cultivation, as well as selling grocery. But their main occupation remains the manufacture and selling...

. Mair are one of the 36 royal castes of Rajputs. Sehdev is a clan

Clan

A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, clan members may be organized around a founding member or apical ancestor. The kinship-based bonds may be symbolical, whereby the clan shares a "stipulated" common ancestor that is a...

 of the Rajput

Rajput

A Rajput is a member of one of the patrilineal clans of western, central, northern India and in some parts of Pakistan. Rajputs are descendants of one of the major ruling warrior classes in the Indian subcontinent, particularly North India...

 and Jat people and found in the states of Punjab and 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...

 in India

India

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. During the Mughal era

Mughal era

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 many Punjabi families followed the teachings of the Guru and were baptized as Khalsa

Khalsa

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 and joined the Guru's order of followers. Many Punjabi Rajput families also enrolled in the Guru's Army, or (Punjabi translation) Khalsa Panth and baptized as Khalsa Sikhs, Sehdevs being one of them.

How is it linked with Sehdev Clan

Sehdevs are of the warrior cast "Kshatriya" which is the second highest cast in India after the learned "Brahmins". "Kshatriya" or the Rajputs are the ruling cast of India, a cast of Warriors and Kings / Rajas.Many had already left practicing all other professions many generations ago and entered other professions especially after higher education was more readily available. As a major part of them were the Zamindars (Landlords) and with course of time this warrior bloodline clan was inserted into the class of Jatt (see List of Jat clans).

Today the Mair Rajputs not only live in India but have migrated and have cropped up all over the world specially in UK, USA and Canada

Canada

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 . And are doing exceptionally well in their fields.

See also

• Jatt
• Mair Rajput
• List of Jat clans
• Sikhism
  Sikhism
  Sikhism is a monotheistic religion founded during the 15th century in the Punjab region, by Guru Nanak Dev and continued to progress with ten successive Sikh Gurus . It is the fifth-largest organized religion in the world and one of the fastest-growing...
  
  
• Rajputs
• Hinduism and Sikhism

External links

• http://www.sikhrajput.com
• http://www.sikh.com