Bagga

Bagga are Punjabi people found in Punjab (India)[1] and Punjab (Pakistan). "Bagga Sheikhan" is a small town in the Rawalpindi District, approximately 35 kms away from Pakistan's capital Islamabad. Those who traveled out to other places in Indian subcontinent from here attached Bagga as their surname, during those times i.e. around 1900 A.D. when the surnames often indicated the place one belonged to rather than lineage.

In India, Baggas are Punjabi Khatris who moved to independent India after Partition of India between 1947-1950.

References
  1. See Buddha, Prakash Political and Social Movements in Ancient Punjab (2008), cited at Religions and Castes Archived 26 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Punjab Government Department of Revenue (using 1961 census). Accessed 26 July 2013
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