The Chib gots are the named sub-clans (گوت, got) of the Chib Rajputs of Bhimber, in today’s Azad Jammu and Kashmir, each descended from an ancestor in the line of Raja Shadab Khan, revered as Baba Shadi Shaheed. This A–Z glossary defines the gots, the mandis (great family estates), the garhs and dheris, and titles such as Raja, Rai, Rajana and Raika, as recorded in the 1997 Urdu history of the Chibs and in H. A. Rose’s Glossary of 1911.
At a glance
- Got
- A sub-clan or sept, usually named after its founding ancestor
- Rose’s count
- Fourteen gots, all descended from Raja Shadi Khan (Baba Shadi Shaheed)
- Two divisions
- Chibhal Rajana, east of the Bhimber Nala, and Chibhal Raika or Khari Kariali, to the west
- Mandis of Chibhal Rajana
- Malot, Bandala, Ghawaliyan and Rajal
- Mandis of Khari Kariali
- Thotha Rai Bahadur, Panjeri, Daura and Khambi Khanpur (later Bahlwal)
- Three grades
- Mandial, Garhial and Dheral
- Highest-ranked got
- Ghanial, the line of the rajas of Bhimber
- Main source
- Iftikhar Ali Khan (1997), pp. 26–28, 120–123, 139–145, 389, 395–406
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Sources
- Raja Muhammad Iftikhar Ali Khan, Raja Shadab Khan alias Hazrat Baba Shadi Shaheed (Urdu, Barhang/Karachi, 1997), pp. 26–28, 38, 43, 120–123, 139–145, 157, 167, 389, 395–406.
- H. A. Rose, A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province (1911), entry “Chibh”, as translated and quoted in the book, pp. 26–28.
- Thakur Major Singh, Tarikh-e-Chibhal (1983 Bikrami, c. 1926), as quoted in the book, pp. 43, 141–143.
- Lepel Griffin and C. F. Massy, The Chiefs of the Punjab, as reproduced in the book, p. 157.
This article is part of our series based on the 1997 Chib history; see the book, chapter by chapter. Spellings of names follow the book.
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