Is the Pal surname in the scheduled caste?

Answer 1

Nope, they are Kshatriya like Maratha (HOLKARS) and Rajput in Rajasthan and western, north India and are OBCs

PAl is a surname .it is also known by Pal/Baghel/Holkar/Dhangar/Gaderiya

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it also have other different name in other states like Jammu & Kashmir known

also "Bakerwal"

Answer 2

In old days people were known by their profession, village, habits, something unique to the group, hence it became part of their names which we call as Surname today.

The surname Pal came from a village names Pel which was at one time near Pakistan and India border. Those villages don't exist anymore because of political reasons.

But the people with roots linked to village Pel have their surname as Pal, some even have Paul, eg A Singh Pal, Ajay Pal, A S Paul & there are some sikhs with names as Paul A. Singh Ahluwalia or Pal A. Singh Ahluwalia which represent both the links as Ahluwalia and Pal.

These people were basically farmers and zamindars and never took schedule caste or schedule tribes professions hence these are not SC or ST.

About SC & ST, there are people in India who took SC / ST certificates to take admissions for education or to have priority to take a job besides they dont belong to these groups. Hence dont judge people as SC / ST as not all had those professions at time, but because of poor Govt system & policies in India and earning living sometimes becoming a very difficult task people took such steps

Answer 3

Answer will be no

They are not sc

But also they aren't kshatriya

They were the tribal community of india

And were chosen as king by various chieftains to maintain Law and Order.

They were first mentioned as kshatriya in a book ' Ramcharitram'.( as to say it was a strategy of brahmin to make pals on their side and also to maintain the concept of 'caste')

But pal were devoted to Buddhism and as we know how brahmins hated budhism and later when pal dynasty was overthroned by sena dynasty( brahminsm) they were pushed backwards.

There is no point of asking caste if it doesn't matter. Those Caste System was just a cunning way to come at top and giving privileges on the basis of birth instead of merit.