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.

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