User:Chahattalan

Population
Population: The current population is 3-4 lakh, 90 % of us live in villages.

Occupations
Occupations: 90 % of the people are farmers. Military and police is another preferred option.

Life style
Life style: is very simple most of us are farmers. Unlike Punjab Youth don’t flaunt on royal enfield bullets and jeeps due to limited resources. No show off.

Food
Food : The diet is very rich. Love to have milk,ghee,makhhan,missi roti sarso da saag and simple food. No spicy food is preferred. Unlike Punjabi people no one here likes chatar patar food like chhole bhature etc.

Religion
Religion: Biggest confusion. 80-85 % of the people are registered as Hindus in their religion but they all go to gurudwaras. Even few marriages are conducted by gyani ji in the presence of Guru granth sahib. Paths are very common and funerals are done through sikh methods. Overall it has lot of influence of Sikhism. Ladies do fasting also and participate in gurudwara sahib deewans as well.(contradicting)

Marriages
Marriages: Marriages are done based on the cast and not religion. Sikhs can marry in hindus. Hindus can marry Sikhs family. There is only condition “both bride and grooms should be pachhade jats.” The marriages with local jat (called deshwali jats) are very rare.

Relations with other Punjab & Punjabis
Relations with other Punjabis (migrated during 1947): friendly but no marriages happen with them. Relations with original jats from U.P.: Same as above. Status of Guru Nanak dev/Guru govind Singh/Guru Granth sahib : All the gurus are considered as avatar of Gods and people worship them like gods.

Five k’s : Only few people follow 5 K’s. like my grandfather converted to sikhism but the count is very low. Although Sikhs keep kesh but all Sikhs are not amritdharis. Interesting thing is sikh are not considered different from others. Many example are there when one son is hindu other one is sikh from the same father. confusing :)

Connection with Punjab: No one has even single relative in Punjab. We don’t know what was our original location. The world pachhade means westerns. That mean we came here from west is the only clue.

Current trend : Lot of radha-swami deras have opened and attracting people towards them. SGPC and other bodies have failed to attract people so ultimately everyone will turn Hindu here.