Explanation:

Kanjar tribe

They claim to have originated in Rajasthan. All Kanjar trace descent from common ancestors, who were said to be a sedentary agriculturist, a Manu Guru and his wife Nathiya Kanjarin.

Many Kanjar fled to the jungles to avoid Mughal persecution. Since that period, many have stayed living in the jungle, and make their living by hunting. The Kanjar supplied the executioners during the period of Mughal and Sikh rule in the Punjab.[citation needed]

A section of the Kanjar of the Punjab converted to Islam, but at an unknown time. The Muslim Kanjar of Punjab might have begun in the Kanjar tribe.

In the Colonial period, Kanjars were listed under the Criminal Tribes Act, 1871, as a tribe "addicted to the systematic commission of non-bailable offences