The Bharwana or Bhanwar or Bhawar caste are a subcaste of the

Sial tribe The Sial tribe (also written as Siyal, Syal, Sayal, Seyal) is a Rajput tribe in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. There is also branch of Jatt originating predominantly from the Jhang District of northern Punjab, Pakistan. Ethnogra ...

Rajput Rajput (from Sanskrit ''raja-putra'' 'son of a king') is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the Indian subcontinent. The term Ra ...

. Those in

Jhang district Jhang District (Punjabi and ur, ) is a district of Faisalabad division in the Punjab province, Pakistan. Jhang city is the capital of district. Geography Jhang District has a triangle-like shape, with its apex at the narrow southwestern c ...

, Pakistan, migrated there from what is now the Indian state of

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern s ...

during the 14th century, having converted to Islam under the influence of the Sufi poet Farid Ganj Shakar.

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{{ci, date=September 2022 Ethnic groups in Pakistan Rajputs Jhang District Rajasthan

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