Gil Jat

Sirsa-Hisar Jat line — traced to Raja Bhainipal / Vinay Pal Birah

The Gil Jat of Sirsa and Hisar — and the parallel Wadan Gils, Man, and Bhuller Jat lineages — preserve in their oral tradition descent from Raja Bhainipal / Vinay Pal Birah, the Varaha king of Bhatinda Fort. H. A. Rose‘s A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab (1914) records the genealogical claim. The Gil Jat tradition is one of the clearest instances of Varaha cadet lines moving from a Kshatriya political identity into a Jat agricultural identity in the centuries after 1192 CE.

Sources

• Rose, H. A., A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab (1914)
• Ibbetson, Glossary of Tribes and Castes of the Punjab (1914)
• Sharma, D., “Identification of the Birāhān” (1943)