Chechi, is a clan of the

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community in

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, and

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. That is prevalent among the Hindu, Sikh, and Muslim Gujjars.

Sub-clans

*Motla or Mudail *Chadri (Chaddar)

Distributions

They are mostly inhabit in north

n States of

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, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, India, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, And Dehli, while in Pakistan they found in all four provinces, Including Sindh,

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, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Hazara, Azad Kashmir they reside in the village of chechian - where the chechi-gurjar originates from

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and Islamabad.

References

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William Crooke William Crooke (6 August 1848 – 25 October 1923) was a British orientalist and a key figure in the study and documentation of Anglo-Indian folklore. He was born in County Cork, Ireland, and was educated at Erasmus Smith's Tipperary Grammar S ...

(1890
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Report on the Census of British India, Taken on the 17th February 1881: Volume 3
Eyre and Spottiswoode. p. Cxxvii #Bakhshish Singh Nijjar (2008
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