Arain

Punjabi tribe

The Arain are a Punjabi agricultural tribe in India and Pakistan. Originally, they had agricultural roots but in later times some of them shifted to towns and cities and became famous in many areas. A famous Arain family in the Indian subcontinent is the Mian (RAZA) Family of Canal bank , in Lahore.[1][2] Some say that they are Aryans and that their name is also from this.[3]

References

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  1. Asad, Mohammad Rehan; Jilani, Shams (2017-04-21). The Arain Diaspora in the Rohilkhand region of India: A historical perspective: General History of Arain tribe of Punjab & Sindh with sociocultural background of the diaspora in Rohilkhand, India. Rehan Asad.
  2. Gustafson, W. Eric (1976). Pakistan and Bangladesh: Bibliographic Essays in Social Science. University of Islamabad Press. p. 26. ISBN 9780836404425.
  3. HA Rose, 'Tribes and castes of the Punjab' 1908 reprint