Sekhon
Sekhon (Punjabi-ਸੇਖੋਂ) is a Jatt clan in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. Notable people with this surname in the various fields are mentioned below :
History of Sekhon Clan
The origin of the Sekhon clan - it comes from the word Shekhu and they have all descended from the Rajputs. One must comprehend that the Rajputs originally did not come from just Rajasthan. This is a misnomer. The Rajputs came principally from the Punjab, parts of Kashmir and even Pakistan districts. The Indian Chieftain who fought Alexander the Great in the 4th Century was a Pramar Rajput - Poros. This was in Jhelum district now Northwest Pakistan. A lot of Greeks (principally Macedonians actually married Rajput women during that period and this was blessed and approved by the alliance between Alexander and Poros. That is why a lot of Punjabis have Greek resembelance (i.e. nordic features). Their forefathers were Greeks. The punjabi clans who were rajputs & warriors and even some Scythian tribes who invaded Punjab in the 2nd and 3rd Centuries were mixed in. One must also factor the movement of Bactrian Greeks from present day Afghanistan in the 11th Century into the Punjab.
Sekhon is a clans name - it could have a possibility of few mixtures - therefore Rajput, Bactrian Greek & the Alexander invasion.
Military Services
- Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon, PVC (17 July 1945 – 14 December 1971) was an officer of the Indian Air Force. He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration, in recognition of his lone defence of Srinagar Air Base against a PAF air raid during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. He is the only member of the Indian Air Force to be so honoured.
Literature
- Sant Singh Sekhon, Punjabi writer migrated from Undivided India (Pakistan region) to India in 1947
Sports
- H. S. Sekhon, Indian cricket umpire
Politics
- Janmeja Singh Sekhon, Cabinet minister of Punjab for a term of 10 years
Further reading
- Sher Singh Sher (1965). The Sansis of Punjab.