What is "aheria"

The Aheria are an ethnic community of India that number about 140,000. Their name means hunter. And their most of occupation are own business and now they also decent educated people as compare to before,their main occupation prior to the 1920s. Since then they have become farmers. The Aheria are found mainly in the states of "Punjab" or Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh..According to their traditions, the Aheria are Rajputs by origin, who were soldiers in the army of Maharana Pratap. After the defeat of the Maharan by the Mughal Empire, the Aheri were hunted down by the Mughal armies. To escape the Mughals, they fled and settled in Punjab. The Aheri are found mainly in the districts of Patiala, Bhatinda, Firuzpur, and Faridkot.

Their clans called gotras from the Sanskrit gotra or clan, the main ones being the „ Rawal,Rana, Baghria, Rajput, Dharuheria, Ganchand, Ghaman, Hogal,Rathore, Sagaria, Saillingia, Samelwal, Sandlas, Sarsut and Sendhi.and Aheria/Aheriya, Turi, Heri, Aheri karwal, karbal, naik are found in utter Pradesh, Rajisthan and Punjab himachal, Haryana but majority are found in Punjab and rajisthan and Utter Pardes only and they belong to rajput origin and their gotras are, „Rana, Chittodiya, Rawal, Anshwaan, Rathore „Most of the Aheria are Hindus and speak Hindi. However there are 17 other languages spoken by Aheria people, the most numerous being Harauti which has about 2000 speakers among the Aheria.

The Aheria are also known as Aheriya, Aheri, Ahiria, or Beta, Herbi, Heri, Hersi, Hesi, Karwal or Karbal, Naik, Thori or Turi.