The Ror

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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.

Caste No. 55

The real seat of the Panjab Rors is in the great dhak jungles south of Thanesar on the borders of the Karnal and Ambala districts, where they hold a chaurasi nominally consisting of 84 villages, of which the village of Amin, where the Pandavas arranged their forces before their last fight with the Kauravas, is the tika or head village. But the Rors have spread down the Western Jamna Caual into the lower parts of Karufil and into Jind in considerable numbers. They are said also to hold 12 villages beyond the Ganges. They are fine stalwart men, of very much the same type as the Jats, whom they almost equal as husbandmen, their women also working in the fields. They are more peaceful and less grasping in their habits than the Jats, and are consequently readily admitted as tenants where the latter would be kept at arm's length.

Of their origin I can say nothing certain. They have the same story as the Aroras, of their having been Rajputs who escaped the fury of Paras Ram by staling that their caste was aur or another.'The Aroras are often calleil Roras in the east of the Panjab; yet I can hardly believe that the frank and stalwart Ror is of the same origin as the Arora. The Amin men say that thev came from Sarabhal in Muradabad : but this mav onlv be in order to connect themselves with their neighbours the Chauhan Rajputs, who certainly came from there. But almost all the Rors alike seem to point to Badli in the Jhajjar tahsil of Rohtak as their immediate place of origin, though some of them say they came from Rajputana. Their social status is identical with that of .Jats ; and they practise karewa or widow-marriage, though only, they say within the caste. Their sub-divisions seem to 1)6 exceedingly numerous. A few of the largest are given in the margin. The Ambala Rors would appear to be mostly Sagwal.