Kahut

Kahut often spelled as Kahout or Kahoot , is a Jat clan (agricultural) found in Shahpur, Gujrat, Rawalpindi, Hazara and Jhelum.[1] They gave their name to the Kahuta hills of Rawalpindi and to the town of Kahuta.[1] Their head-quarters were found in Salt Range and give its name to the Kahutani ilaqa of Chakwal tehsil[1].They now declare that they were originally located in Arabia, the present tribal name being merely that of their common ancestor: 24 generations ago. about the year A. D. 1359 their ancestor Said Nawab Ali migrated to Delhi, in the reign of " Firoz Shah Ghori": (Firoz Tughlaq, son of Muhammad Tughlaq, is no doubt meant: he reigned from 1351 to 1388 A. D.): [1]on the way to Delhi they fought and conquered a pagan king of Sialkot, named Sain Pal, who was, they say, probably a Dogra prince. On reaching Delhi they paid their respects to the king who ordered them to hold the Dhanni and the Salt Range on his behalf: under the leadership of Kahut, the son of Nawab Ali, they accordingly retraced their steps to this district, and settled first at Gagnelpur, of which the ruined site is shown in Mauza Wariamal near the foot of the Salt Range : here they remained for some time, realising the revenue from the Janjuas of the hills and the Gujar graziers of the Dhanni, and remitting it to Delhi. The Mairs and Kassars had not then arrived in these parts, but came six or seven generations afterwards. The eastern Dhanni was then a lake, which on the coming of Babar was drained at his command, the Kahuts taking part in the work and colonising the land reclaimed. Chaudhri Sahnsar, 8th in descent from Kahut(the son of Nawab Ali), was their ancestor in the time of Babar.[1]