Bajwa

Bajwa (Punjabi: ਬਾਜਵਾ (Gurmukhi); باجوہ (Shahmukhi)) is a Jat^[1] surname and tribe name commonly found among the Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus of the Punjab region in India and Pakistan.^[2]^{[need quotation to verify]}

Notable people bearing the Bajwa name, who may or may not be affiliated with the clan, include:

Arjan Bajwa (born 1979), Indian actor and model
Asif Bajwa (born 1969), Pakistani field hockey player
Asim Saleem Bajwa, Pakistani former military officer
Charanjit Kaur Bajwa (born 1959), Indian politician
Dilpreet Bajwa (born 2003), Indian sportsmen
Javed Ashraf Bajwa, Pakistani military officer
Jugpreet Singh Bajwa (born 1994), Indo-Canadian singer
Najm Us Saqib Bajwa (born 1983), a Pakistani entrepreneur
Neeru Bajwa (born 1982), Indo-Canadian actress
Poonam Bajwa, Indian actress
Pratap Singh Bajwa (born 1957), Indian politician
Qamar Javed Bajwa (born 1960), a Pakistani Military General, retired as Army Chief;
Rupa Bajwa (born 1976), Indian writer
Sonam Bajwa (born 1989), Indian model and actress
Surinder Singh Bajwa (c. 1955–2007), Indian politician
Tariq Bajwa, Pakistani civil servant
Tariq Mahmood Bajwa, Pakistani politician
Tripat Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Indian politician
T. S. Bajwa, Indian politician
Varinder Singh Bajwa, Indian politician
Ehsan Ul Haq Bajwa, Pakistani politician
Muhammad Asif Bajwa, Pakistani politician
Ali Zia Bajwa, Pakistani jurist
Iram Hassan Bajwa, Pakistani politician

References

^ Dikshit, K. R.; Dikshit, Jutta K. (18 February 2025). Land, People and Economy of Pakistan: A Geographic Perspective. Taylor & Francis. p. 143. ISBN 978-1-040-30677-2. They were labelled as Muslim Jats or Muslim Rajputs. In all these expressions, the Hindu ancestry received primacy over their religion. Some of the Muslim Jat clans were Awans, Bains, Bajwa, Khokhar, Kharal.
^ Singh, Kumar Suresh (1996). "Appendix B". Communities, Segments, Synonyms, Surnames and Titles. People of India: National series. Vol. 8 (Illustrated ed.). Delhi: Anthropological Survey of India. pp. 1355–1357. ISBN 0-19-563357-1. OCLC 35662663.

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[1] Dikshit, K. R.; Dikshit, Jutta K. (18 February 2025). Land, People and Economy of Pakistan: A Geographic Perspective. Taylor & Francis. p. 143. ISBN 978-1-040-30677-2. They were labelled as Muslim Jats or Muslim Rajputs. In all these expressions, the Hindu ancestry received primacy over their religion. Some of the Muslim Jat clans were Awans, Bains, Bajwa, Khokhar, Kharal.

[:6-2] Singh, Kumar Suresh (1996). "Appendix B". Communities, Segments, Synonyms, Surnames and Titles. People of India: National series. Vol. 8 (Illustrated ed.). Delhi: Anthropological Survey of India. pp. 1355–1357. ISBN 0-19-563357-1. OCLC 35662663.

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