The Khakha

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This article is an extract from PANJAB CASTES SIR DENZIL CHARLES JELF IBBETSON, K.C. S.I. Being a reprint of the chapter on The Races, Castes and Tribes of the People in the Report on the Census of the Panjab published in 1883 by the late Sir Denzil Ibbetson, KCSI Lahore: Printed by the Superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab, 1916. Indpaedia is an archive. It neither agrees nor disagrees with the contents of this article. Secondly, this has been scanned from a book. You can help by sending the corrected version to the Facebook page, Indpaedia.com. All information used will be duly acknowledged.

The Khakha

Caste No. 179 Khakha is said to he a not un common epithet to apply to any petty Kbatri trader. But the people to whom our figures refer are now sufficiently distinct, though their Khatri origin is, I believe, undoubted. They are in fact converted Khatris, and are found in greatest numbers in the Kashmir hills lying along the left Bank of the Jahlam ; whence a few have made their way into Hazara and Rawalpindi. Sir George Campbell calls them a curiously handsome people.

See The Bhatia