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Good but verbose article. Is it possible to cut it down to material just regarding Pirachas ? Dirgni (talk) 21:37, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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As for the Piracha , they too, are Khatri, who converted to Islam very early.^[1]

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The Gazetteer of the Rawalpindi District 1893 and 94 however records that

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they are converted Hindus and seem to be much the same as Khojas " •^[2]

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But in the north west Punjab and the northern districts of the North west Frontier Province , the term Paracha is preferred by Hindu traders converted to Islam , so that where the Parachas are recognised and wealthy caste , Khoja is used for miscellanaeous Muhammadan traders ,chiefly hawkers and Pedlers , or at least petty traders , while in the eastern districts in the Derajat, where the Khojas are commercially important , paracha is used for ^[3]

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The Gazetteer of the Shahpur District 1897 records that-

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The Musalmans generally use the Arabic Character.The Musalman Khoja and Piracha traders however mostly keep their accounts in Hindi .•^[4]

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Intothefire (talk) 03:24, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Christophe Jaffrelot, Gillian Beaumont (2004). Anthem Press (ed.). A history of Pakistan and its origins (illustrated ed.). p. 209. ISBN 1843311496. Translated by Gillian Beaumont
^ Gazetteer of the Rawalpindi District 1893-94, Punjab Government, 2001 Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore. Page 104
^ Denzil Ibbetson, Edward MacLagan, H.A. Rose "A Glossary of The Tribes & Casts of The Punjab & North-West Frontier Province", 1911 AD, Page 537, Vol II,
^ Gazetteer of the Shahpur District 1897, Punjab Government, Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore. Page 91

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Dear all, hi. There seem to be two main problems with this article- (a) it doesnt give adequate refs/citations and those that are there are not formated properly and (b) the sections/main text needs to be broken up into managable sections. I would request that the creator, or someone interested in this topic, might pl take a detailed look at it and fix. Am doing a little bit to help things along. Thanks, Khani100 (talk) 12:09, 16 April 2012 (UTC)Khani100[reply]

Helo, I have today removed many non-notable names from list of supposedly 'notable people'. Please, ONLY add those names of people who are demonstrably notable and already have an existing Wikipedia article. Thanks you. 39.54.180.86 (talk) 21:29, 18 October 2014 (UTC)Prof retd Hilda Khan, Pakistan[reply]

Article uses Hindu and Hindi interchangeably

The article, despite its sources makes little sense. How can something like an ancient caste be of "hindi" origin when the language is less than a few centuries old. I am guessing its to do with using the word Hindi and Hindu interchangeably. --2A02:8084:901:4D00:2997:7B61:A080:F5C8 (talk) 09:33, 7 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Christophe Jaffrelot, Gillian Beaumont (2004). Anthem Press (ed.). A history of Pakistan and its origins (illustrated ed.). p. 209. ISBN 1843311496. Translated by Gillian Beaumont

[2] Gazetteer of the Rawalpindi District 1893-94, Punjab Government, 2001 Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore. Page 104

[3] Denzil Ibbetson, Edward MacLagan, H.A. Rose "A Glossary of The Tribes & Casts of The Punjab & North-West Frontier Province", 1911 AD, Page 537, Vol II,

[4] Gazetteer of the Shahpur District 1897, Punjab Government, Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore. Page 91

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