Emergence As A Caste
The founder of the misl, Jassa Singh, was a carpenter who took the last name of Ramgarhia as a consequence of building a fort that was called Ramgarh. It was not until around 1930 that the name became generally associated with a caste, whose principle occupation was also that of carpentry as well as being blacksmiths. With the development of mechanisation in their traditional jobs, many subsequently moved into industries such as manufacture of bicycles and machine tools, and also modern versions of the agricultural implements that they had previously made as blacksmiths. Many administrators of the British Raj period who also wrote books - such as H. A. Rose, Denzil Ibbetson and William Crooke - referred to the blacksmith communities as Lohars, although in fact that term refers to a specific group of people and is not the synonym that they supposed.
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