Jat Clan: Talokar
Distribution	Punjab (Pakistan) 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...   Sargodha District Sargodha District Sargodha District is a district of Punjab province, Pakistan, the capital of the district is Sargodha. It is an agricultural district, wheat, rice, and sugarcane being its main crops. The Sargodha district and region are also famous for citrus fruit; kino is a newly developed variety...
Descended from:	Parmar 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... s
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Religion	Islam Islam Islam . The most common are and .   : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
Languages	Punjabi Punjabi language Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region . For Sikhs, the Punjabi language stands as the official language in which all ceremonies take place. In Pakistan, Punjabi is the most widely spoken language...  and Seraiki Saraiki language Saraiki , transliterated as Sirāikī and sometimes spelled Seraiki and Saraiki, is a standardized written language of Pakistan belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages. It is a language spoken in the heart of Pakistan...
Surnames:	Talokar

The Talokar, also pronounced Thalokar, are 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"...

 (clan) of Jats, found in the 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...

 province of 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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History and origin

According to their traditions, they are the related to Sial and Tiwana

Tiwana

Tiwana is a Jat Punjabi Rajput clan that hails the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. The Tiwanas of East Punjab are Jat Sikhs, while the Tiwanas of West Punjab are Muslims. Tiwanas are descendants of Panwar Rajputs....

 tribes. Supposedly all three tribes of descendants from three brothers, Tila, Sila and Taloka, who were Panwar 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...

s. However, today, the Talokars are generally counted as Jats rather than Rajputs in the Punjab. The tribe is said to have accepted Islam

Islam

Islam . The most common are and .   : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...

 at the hands of the famous Sufi Baba Farid Shukar Gunj. The Talokars came from East Punjab 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...

, and first settled near Bhera

Bhera

Bhera is a city on the Jhelum river in Sargodha District, Punjab province of Pakistan. It lies at latitude 32.48 N, longitude 72.92.-Location:...

. Their first villages were Kalara and Kurrar Talokar. From there, they spread to the east side of the Indus River, founding the villages of Bakharra (Kacha), Ding and Khola (Thal),parts of Peshawer valley,Bannu and Mianwali District

Mianwali District

Mianwali is a district in the northwest of Punjab province, Pakistan. It borders eight districts: Attock District in the north, Chakwal District in the northeast, Khushab District in the east, and Bhakkar District in the south, while Lakki Marwat lies to the west, Kohat and Karak districts to the...

. Some of them even reached as far as the Attock

Attock

Attock is a city located in the northern border of the Punjab province of Pakistan and the headquarters of Attock District...

 area and Hazara District

Hazara District

Hazara District was a district of Peshawar Division in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan until 1976.The Imperial Gazetteer of India described the district as follows..-Khatris and Khokhran:...

 of the former NWFP--as attested by the name of village 'Talokar' in Haripur

Haripur

Haripur is a city in Haripur District in the Hazara Division of Hazara, some north of Islamabad and south of Abbottabad, in a hilly plain area at an altitude of . The city is situated on the Karakoram Highway .- History :...

 area, there-- but were eventually displaced and driven out by various Afghan

Afghan

Afghan may refer to:* The country of Afghanistan, as abbreviated in reports as Afghan, or Afg.* Someone or something related to Afghanistan, see also Demography of Afghanistan* Afghan cuisine...

/Pathan

Pathan

Pathan may refer to a member of the:*Pashtun people; an ethnic group native to Pakistan and Afghanistan*Pathans of Punjab*Pathans of Rajasthan*Pathans of Uttar Pradesh*Pathans of Bihar*Pathans of Gujarat*Rohilla...

 clans circa the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Distribution & Villages

The Talokar are today mainly found in the districts of Khushab

Khushab District

Khushab District is a rural tribal district located in Punjab, Pakistan. According to the 1998 census, the population was 905,711 with 24.76% living in urban areas. The district consists of 3 tehsils: Khushab, Nurpur, and Quaidabad, as well as a sub-tehsil Naushera...

, Sargodha

Sargodha District

Sargodha District is a district of Punjab province, Pakistan, the capital of the district is Sargodha. It is an agricultural district, wheat, rice, and sugarcane being its main crops. The Sargodha district and region are also famous for citrus fruit; kino is a newly developed variety...

 and Mianwali

Mianwali District

Mianwali is a district in the northwest of Punjab province, Pakistan. It borders eight districts: Attock District in the north, Chakwal District in the northeast, Khushab District in the east, and Bhakkar District in the south, while Lakki Marwat lies to the west, Kohat and Karak districts to the...

 districts.

Their main villages in Khushab District

Khushab District

Khushab District is a rural tribal district located in Punjab, Pakistan. According to the 1998 census, the population was 905,711 with 24.76% living in urban areas. The district consists of 3 tehsils: Khushab, Nurpur, and Quaidabad, as well as a sub-tehsil Naushera...

 are Talokar , Talokar Shumali , Talokar Jannubi and Chak Talokaranwala ( Mehmood Shaheid )and many other chakooks in ( Noor Pur Thal )), and in Mianwali District

Mianwali District

Mianwali is a district in the northwest of Punjab province, Pakistan. It borders eight districts: Attock District in the north, Chakwal District in the northeast, Khushab District in the east, and Bhakkar District in the south, while Lakki Marwat lies to the west, Kohat and Karak districts to the...

are ( Ding Khola'Talokar) ( New Ding Sharif , Saeed Abad (Sharqi and Gharbi), Lal Khelan wala , Zaman Kelan wala, Hashim Naggar,Tahir Abad , Shahbaz Khelanwala and Khanqah Sirrajia.