Hi ! I'm Musa Qaisar Raina (Muslim) from Pakistan, our ancestral land is Rainawari Srinagar. Our family migrated during partition and now are settled in Gakkhar Punjab Pakistan form 74 years. It's good to see Raina community from different ethnicities and religious beliefs in one place! In Pakistan Raina community is very few in number but I'm glad to see more of us!
SRSuneel Raina
October 25, 2020 at 4:46 AM
I believe Raina originally are rajputs as they were ruling in a Kashmir
They originally come from Rana but then in Kashmir they called Raina
Then in 14 th century when Kashmir got converted then very few families remained mostly Bhat so Raina etc all then known as Kashmiri Pandits
Then later some Raina converted to Sikhism
Last Hindu queen Kota Rani ,s brother name was Ravan Raina
Raina were then rajputs rulers of valley
Later know as Pandits in Kashmir who did not converted
MNMuhammad Nauman Raina
March 31, 2020 at 8:03 AM
Raina muhammad nauman iam from azad kashmir district muzaffarabad i read bistory of raina many times they are kashmiri pandats and ruler and we also migrated from kashmire aproxemately 6 century before we are muslims now and in p.o.k we are aproxemately 20 thousad only my facbook rana muhammad nauman kashmiri 00923005496359whats Aap
PRPiyush Raina
August 18, 2019 at 12:33 PM
Some of information on above comments is true others are vague in nature but good effort
CRChander Raina
November 16, 2018 at 8:32 AM
Hello everyone I'm Chander Raina from Haryana my grand father was from Palandri now in POK after partition my grand father come here.our language is Poonchi and many of our people are lives in poonch area,before partition many of our people's was live in Palandri,Tatta Pani,Kotli Mirpur.
JSJitendra Sharma
October 1, 2018 at 7:04 AM
I am Jitendra Sharma my father and mother were from poonch (huranamaira villlage now in Pakistan and they were of Reen caste and August gotta. We still speak poonchi, the language spoken in poonch. We are Brahmin and do shradh in pitra paksh month. Please let me know our history. Further please let me know whether RAINA & the REEN caste of Brahmin is same.
IRIrfan Raina
June 28, 2018 at 11:24 AM
As per my knowledge because i am muslim Raina.two brothers bnsi lal chander and so sarm chander migrated to kashmir in mugal era.they both were belonging to chanderwanshi dynasty.when they migrated to kashmir later maharaja gulab singh welcome them,being Rajput's they placed them as sipa salar of his army because rajputs were fighters and emperors of the state.When revolution of islam came in kashmir few of them converted to islam and Khitab was given to them that Raina Khitab. (Not only who changed their religion bt all dynasty got this khitab)because they were giving their best traning to the defence army of mahraja.Raina was not a cast but later it becoms a cast.with the passage of time some of them migrated to other parts of india.Rainas are few .with different Goathrs...all Rains are one Blood ..some are pandits,musims and sikhs.
ABAhmad Bhat
April 12, 2018 at 1:15 PM
While I agree that most Sikhs in the Valley are of non-Kashmiri (Jammu and Piunjab) yet a few Kashmiris may have converted to this great religion. Few Sikhs carry the name Rainas but have through time mixed with other Sikhs. As such they have little Kashmiri looks and do not speak Kashmiri either as their mother tomngue.
The Bhats (Butts) are surely of Kashmiri Pandit origin and are pure Kashmiris. In fact Kashmiri Butts are all over in Pakistan particularly in Lahore and Gujranwala. They have proven to be great wrestlers. The great Gama was a Butt. In fact even now mostly Butts are fielded by Pakistan in wrestling, weightlifting, etc. The genuine Kashmiri ethnic stock is pure Aryan and Central Asian.
MMustaq
April 11, 2018 at 2:08 PM
The Sikhs in Kashmir are surely not ethnic Kashmiris but from Jammu and Punjab. Their language. looks, culture, etc. is also different from Kashmiris. Though these people also belong to the Aryan Race while the Kashmiris are a distinct group of Central Asian Aryans. The Khatri (a merchant) class of Punjabis also arrived in Kashmir and they are non-Kashmiris closer to the Sikhs. The main castes of Kashmiris both Muslims and Hindus are Bhat (Butt), Pandit, Raina., Kaul, Pandit, etc. While in some castes such as Wani, Tantrey and the famous caste of warriors Magrey have allnacceptednow Islam.
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Add CommentThey originally come from Rana but then in Kashmir they called Raina
Then in 14 th century when Kashmir got converted then very few families remained mostly Bhat so Raina etc all then known as Kashmiri Pandits
Then later some Raina converted to Sikhism
Last Hindu queen Kota Rani ,s brother name was Ravan Raina
Raina were then rajputs rulers of valley
Later know as Pandits in Kashmir who did not converted
The Bhats (Butts) are surely of Kashmiri Pandit origin and are pure Kashmiris. In fact Kashmiri Butts are all over in Pakistan particularly in Lahore and Gujranwala. They have proven to be great wrestlers. The great Gama was a Butt. In fact even now mostly Butts are fielded by Pakistan in wrestling, weightlifting, etc. The genuine Kashmiri ethnic stock is pure Aryan and Central Asian.
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