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Originally Posted by Ray
This is also applicable to those who went to Pakistan., but they were the real Untouchables.
Punjab you have confirmed what I wrote earlier.
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I dont know about the Sindhis or the Muhajirs but Punjabi Muslims are largely converted from Rajput and Jatt castes/tribes. Neither of those two groups have been considered as 'untouchables' or 'Dalits'. Rajputs are high castes among Hindus. Virtually all of the Rajput tribes of the Punjab plains became Muslims. It was the small remainder of Rajputs in the Punjab Hills that are still largely Hindus.
Other 'high caste' Punjabis like the Khatris also became Muslims in significant number.
There are of course Chamars and other so-called 'low castes' of Punjabi society that became Muslim but if you think this was all done by the whip you are blissfully unaware of the spread of Sufism in Punjab long before the Mughal empire.