Warraich or Waraich is a Jat ethnic clan or tribe found in Pakistani Punjab and the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana.[1][2]

In Pakistan, this tribe or clan is mostly found in Gujrat District, Mandi Bahauddin District and Gujranwala Districts of Punjab, Pakistan.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Jones, Philip E. (2003). The Pakistan People's Party: Rise to Power. Oxford University Press. p. 329. ISBN 978-0-19-579966-8. In the main, this area is dominated by strong, local Jat clans (Chattha, Cheema, Tarar, Gondal and Waraich) that, in the past near-century, ...[verification needed]
  2. ^ Singh, Kumar Suresh (1996). "Appendix B". Communities, Segments, Synonyms, Surnames and Titles. People of India: National series. Vol. 8 (Illustrated ed.). Delhi: Anthropological Survey of India. pp. 1355–1357. ISBN 0-19-563357-1. OCLC 35662663.
  3. ^ Henry Samuel Price Davies. Customary Law of the Gujrat District, Volume 9 of Punjab customary law (pages 2, 6, 8, 9 and 12). Civil and military gazette Press - Harvard University Library (digitized 15 December 2007) via Google Books website. OCLC 1064764399.
  4. ^ "Mandi Bahauddin: a PML-PPP battleground (Warraich, Gondal, Chan and Mangat tribes)". Dawn newspaper. 23 August 2005. Archived from the original on 9 October 2024. Retrieved 9 October 2024.