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Amarkot was the only area with a Hindu majority population of Sodha Rajputs and including the ruling family that acceded to Pakistan. Rana Chandra Singh, a federal minister and the chieftain of the Hindu Sodha Rajput clan and the Amarkot Jagir, was one of the founder members of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan from Umarkot, seven times with PPP ...
The Sodha Rajput clan are a branch of the Parmar clan of Rajputs, as they are an off-shoot of Parmara Rajputs, who once controlled regions of Malwa and later North-West parts of Rajasthan. The kingdom was known for giving refuge to Mughal emperor Humayun , after he was fleeing from the forces of Sher Shah Suri, hence Akbar was born in the ...
Karanpal's son Jhalansi defeated the Sodha Rajputs, and the ruler of Multan but died fighting the Turks in 1328. [23] His son Chhada defeated the Sodha's, the ruler of Jaisalmer, Nagaur and Jalore. [24] He died fighting the Songaras in 1344. [25] Chhada's son Rao Tida avenged his father's death by defeating the Songara's. [26]
Rana Chandra Singh (Sindhi: رانا چندر سنگه ; 1931 – 1 August 2009), also known as Rana Chandar Singh, was a Pakistani politician and a federal minister.He was one of the founding members of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan from Umerkot seven times with PPP between 1977 and 1999.
In 1736, Noor Mohammad Kalhoro expelled the last Sodha chief and took control of it. [5] Amarkot province was ruled by the Sodha Rajput clan during the medieval period. [ 6 ] Rana Parshad , the Sodha Rajput ruler of Umarkot, gave refuge to Humayun , the second Mughal Emperor when he was ousted by Sher Shah Suri , and the following year Mughal ...
Such a marriage between someone from a tribal family, and a member of an acknowledged - but possibly poor - Rajput family, would ultimately enable the non-Rajput family to rise to Rajput status. This marriage pattern supports the fact that Rajput was an "open caste category", available to those who served the Mughals. [64]
Genealogies of the Rajput clans were fabricated by pastoral nomadic tribes when they became sedentary. In a process called Rajputization, after acquiring political power, they employed bards to fabricate these lineages which also disassociated them from their original ancestry of cattle-herding or cattle-rustling communities and acquired the name 'Rajput'.
There have been many instances of intermarriages between Muslim and Hindu Rajputs for political reasons. For example, the marriage of the daughter of Ismail Khan, the ruler of Sind, to Rao Kalan of Jaisalmer for consolidating his kingdom. Another instance can be seen in Chachi Deo's (1448–62) marriage to the granddaughter of Mohammad Shoomar ...