JOHYA, a Rajput tribe in the tracts about Pakpattan, along the Sutlej. The Johya, Dahya, and Mangalya tribes are now Muhammadan, but are few either in the valley or desert, as also are the Bairowi, a class of Baluch, and the Khairowi, Jangria, (Anat., and Baggria, descended from the Pramar and Sankla Rajputs. By some authorities the Johya are included among the 36 royal races of India, by others they are considered a mere ramification of the Yadu Bhatti, and Colonel Tod calls them a Jat race. Some of the Joodi and Johya inhabit the range called in the native annals Juddoo-ka-dang, and by Baber the hill of Jud, skirting the Behut. Behera (Rennell calls it Ilheera, in lat. 32° N., and long. 72° 10' E., and Elphinstone, lat. 32° 10' N., and long. 73° 15' E.) is often mentioned in the Yadu Bhatti annals. It was one of their intermediate places of repose, on their expulsion from India and migration to Central Asia. Its position was minutely pointed out by the emperor Baber (p. 259), who in his attack on the hill tribes of Jat, Gujar, Guker, etc., adjoining Kashmir, 'expelled Hati Guker from Behera, on the Behut river, near the cave temples of Garkotri at Bikrum,' of which the annotator remarks that they, as well as those of But Boman, were probably Buddhist. Baber (p. 294) also
found the Jat masters of Sealkote, most likely the Salpur conquered from a Jat prince in the 12th century by the Patan prince, and presumed to be the Salbhanpura founded by the fugitive Yadu prince of Gnjni. Among the Labia and Johya Raj puts of the Indian desert, where they founded their first capital, Derrawul, many from compul sion embraced the Muhammadan faith, on which occasion they assumed the name of Jat, of which at least twenty different offsets are enumerated in the Yadu chronicles. Colonel Cunningham thinks that in the time of Alexander the Johya probably extended from Bhatner and Pakpattan to Sabzaikot, about half-way between Uch'h and Maar.— Cunningham's Ancient Geography of India, p. 245; Ted's Travels, xiv. p. 45; Tad's Rajasthan, i. p. 19, ii. pp. 233, 289 ; Erskine's Baber, p. 259.