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	Hindu Gakhars are an ancient clan of India from the Punjab region . Gakhars are found among ]. After the ] in 1947 Hindu Gakhars moved from their traditional homes in West Punjab and what is now part of ] to ].

	Before the partition of India Hindu Gakhars were settled in the areas of ] and ] and ]

	After the arrival of Islam into the subcontinent a predominant section of Gakhars converted to Islam from Hinduism. The Muslim Gakhars in Pakistan are a prominent community in that country .

	In his book The wonder that was India II on page 22 S A A Rizvi states " the motives of Muizzuudin's conquests were no different from those of Mahmud of Ghazni .Both were in need of plunder from India to maintain their slave armies and to attract the wandering bands of Islamicized mercenaries known as "ghazis" to their forces . The Islamicization of India was not their main objective , although some tribal leaders such as the Gakkhars were encouraged to embrace Islam " .

	While a significantly large majority of Gakkhars did convert to Islam from Hinduism ,during the medieval period many Gakhar Hindus did not convert and continued to live in their traditional homelands of West Punjab which now falls in the Pakistan Punjab . At the time of the partition of India in 1947 the Gakhar Hindus were uprooted from their ancestoral homes and moved to India on account of the communal exchange of populations . They now live in various parts of North India .


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