what do you know about Gujjar Bakarwals of jammu and kasmir ? illustrate
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The Gurjar-Bakarwals claim a common ancestry from the Gujjar tribe. Gujjars and Bakerwals are one tribe popularly known as Gurjar or Gurjars in South Asia. Gujjars have many names like Ajjadh, Dhangar, Dohdhi, Banhara, and Vanvasi. Gujjars who rear goats and sheep are called Bakerwals. Gujjars and Bakerwals share the same history, culture, language, sub castes and racial identity. Even all anthropological and genetic studies conducted on Gujjars-Bakerwals say that they are not separate identities in any ways. In 1991 the Gujjars-Bakerwals were granted Tribal status in Jammu and Kashmir after conducting a study. The study reveals that Bakerwal is another name of Gujjars entered in revenue records that's why both the names (Gujjars and Bakerwals) were included while the community was enlisted in tribal category in Indian constitutions. Bakerwals belong to the same ethnicity stock as the Gujjars, and inter-marriages freely take place among them”. There are a number of examples where one brother's name was entered in revenue record as Bakerwal and other's as Gujjar.