Vohra (caste)

Vohra community
Regions with significant populations
	All Northern parts Including Jammu & Kashmir Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh
Languages
	Hindi and every regional dialect of Punjabi language
Religion
	Majority of Population ; Islam • Sikhism; Minor section; Hinduism
Related ethnic groups
	Sunni Muslim including other members

Vohra or (Wora)^[1] are relatively identified with Bohra Muslims^[2], is surname used by Hindu Khatris^[3] and Sikh traders^[4]^[5] or Khoja Sheikh which were heraldically mentioned as one of the Bahri or Bhujai ("household of 52 fellow-ship"),

an divisional subclass of Khatri community^[6]^[7]^[8] found in the Punjab region of Indian also locative within some bordering part of Pakistani Punjab (after partition).

Etymology

According to historical instance, Bohra may be contraction of beohara "one engaged in "beohar" or business^[9] while some other scholar conspired it may be derived from Brahmins.^[source?]

Notable people

Vohra is surname of Indian origin, some of the notable people which might be or may not related to Vohra Jat community

Arshad Vohra (born 1958), Pakistani politician
Bhagwati Charan Vohra (1903–1930), Indian revolutionary
Sunny Leone (born 1981 as Karenjit Kaur Vohra), Canadian-born Indian-American actress, businesswoman and model

Related pages

References

↑ Singh, Kumar Suresh; Bhanu, B. V.; India, Anthropological Survey of (2004). Maharashtra. Popular Prakashan. ISBN 978-81-7991-102-0. An Ahuja may opt for a fançiful Huja and a Vohra may prefer to write Wora meaning that instead of traditions and customs whims operate. More liberties are taken in the absence of any kind of stronghold.
↑ Kumari, Ashok Pratap Singh& Patiraj (2007). Psychological Implications in Industrial Performance. Global Vision Publishing House. p. 793. ISBN 978-81-8220-200-9. The Sunni Bohra call themselves Qazi in Saurastra region and Bowehis Jand Patni in south Gujarat. The word Bowehi was later corrupted to Bohara and then to Vohra in course of time.
↑ Koul, Ram Krishan (1982). Sociology of Names and Nicknames of India: With Special Reference to Kashmir. Utpal Publications. p. 62.
↑ Singh, Pashaura (9 August 2024). The Routledge Companion to the Life and Legacy of Guru Hargobind: Sovereignty, Militancy, and Empowerment of the Sikh Panth. Taylor & Francis. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-040-10632-7. The Khatri caste hgal, Ohri, Uppal, Julka, Bhalla, Passi, Khullar, Vohra, Vij, Kapur, Chadha, ohli, Marwah, Mehra, Soni, Jhanjhi, Sodhi, Beri, Nanda, Wadhawan, Tulli, i subcastes) was particularly prominent among the trading communities,
↑ Singh, Pashaura (10 July 2006). Life and Work of Guru Arjan: History, Memory, and Biography in the Sikh Tradition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-908780-8. Vohra, Vij, Kapur, Chaddha, Behl, Kohli, Marwah, Mehra, Soni, Jhanjhi, Sodhi, Beri, Nanda, Wadhawan, Tulli, and Puri sub-castes) was particularly prominent among the trading communities
↑ Congress, Indian History (1986). Written at Delhi. Proceedings. India: Indian History Congress. p. 52. well known khatri sucastes of the Punjab: Sehgal, Ohri, Uppal, Julka, Bhalla, Passi, Khullar, Vohra, Vij, Kapur, Chaddha, Behl, Kohli, Mar-waha, Mehra, Soni, Jhanji, Sodhi, Beri, Nanda, Wadhawan, Tulli and Puri.

↑ Kakar, Sudhir (30 October 2014). A Book of Memory: Confessions and Reflections. Penguin UK. ISBN 978-93-5118-885-8. The divisions go on further into the barah jati grouping of twelve sub-castes such as Bhandari, Chopra, Dhawan, Sahgal, Talwar, Tandon, Vohra, Wadhawan, and still further into the bavanjai or fifty-two sub-castes. Not that

↑ Tandon, Prakash (1968). Punjabi Century, 1857-1947. University of California Press. p. 52. In Peroshah, a small town not far from Gujrat, in the direction of Bhimber and Kashmir, there was a Bahri Khatri family of the caste of Vohra.

↑ Pillai, V. Kannu (2007). Caste: Observation of I.C.S. Officers and Others Since 1881. Gautam Book Center. p. 25. ISBN 978-81-905583-6-5. Bohra is a contraction of beohara, "one engaged in beohar or business." Khatri is a variant, or (to speak more correctly), the modern Hindi pronunciation; of Kshatriya, an offshoot of the warrior caste which

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[1] Singh, Kumar Suresh; Bhanu, B. V.; India, Anthropological Survey of (2004). Maharashtra. Popular Prakashan. ISBN 978-81-7991-102-0. An Ahuja may opt for a fançiful Huja and a Vohra may prefer to write Wora meaning that instead of traditions and customs whims operate. More liberties are taken in the absence of any kind of stronghold.

[2] Kumari, Ashok Pratap Singh& Patiraj (2007). Psychological Implications in Industrial Performance. Global Vision Publishing House. p. 793. ISBN 978-81-8220-200-9. The Sunni Bohra call themselves Qazi in Saurastra region and Bowehis Jand Patni in south Gujarat. The word Bowehi was later corrupted to Bohara and then to Vohra in course of time.

[3] Koul, Ram Krishan (1982). Sociology of Names and Nicknames of India: With Special Reference to Kashmir. Utpal Publications. p. 62.

[4] Singh, Pashaura (9 August 2024). The Routledge Companion to the Life and Legacy of Guru Hargobind: Sovereignty, Militancy, and Empowerment of the Sikh Panth. Taylor & Francis. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-040-10632-7. The Khatri caste hgal, Ohri, Uppal, Julka, Bhalla, Passi, Khullar, Vohra, Vij, Kapur, Chadha, ohli, Marwah, Mehra, Soni, Jhanjhi, Sodhi, Beri, Nanda, Wadhawan, Tulli, i subcastes) was particularly prominent among the trading communities,

[5] Singh, Pashaura (10 July 2006). Life and Work of Guru Arjan: History, Memory, and Biography in the Sikh Tradition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-908780-8. Vohra, Vij, Kapur, Chaddha, Behl, Kohli, Marwah, Mehra, Soni, Jhanjhi, Sodhi, Beri, Nanda, Wadhawan, Tulli, and Puri sub-castes) was particularly prominent among the trading communities

[6] Congress, Indian History (1986). Written at Delhi. Proceedings. India: Indian History Congress. p. 52. well known khatri sucastes of the Punjab: Sehgal, Ohri, Uppal, Julka, Bhalla, Passi, Khullar, Vohra, Vij, Kapur, Chaddha, Behl, Kohli, Mar-waha, Mehra, Soni, Jhanji, Sodhi, Beri, Nanda, Wadhawan, Tulli and Puri.

[7] Kakar, Sudhir (30 October 2014). A Book of Memory: Confessions and Reflections. Penguin UK. ISBN 978-93-5118-885-8. The divisions go on further into the barah jati grouping of twelve sub-castes such as Bhandari, Chopra, Dhawan, Sahgal, Talwar, Tandon, Vohra, Wadhawan, and still further into the bavanjai or fifty-two sub-castes. Not that

[8] Tandon, Prakash (1968). Punjabi Century, 1857-1947. University of California Press. p. 52. In Peroshah, a small town not far from Gujrat, in the direction of Bhimber and Kashmir, there was a Bahri Khatri family of the caste of Vohra.

[9] Pillai, V. Kannu (2007). Caste: Observation of I.C.S. Officers and Others Since 1881. Gautam Book Center. p. 25. ISBN 978-81-905583-6-5. Bohra is a contraction of beohara, "one engaged in beohar or business." Khatri is a variant, or (to speak more correctly), the modern Hindi pronunciation; of Kshatriya, an offshoot of the warrior caste which

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