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Chauhan, a name derived from the historical Chahamanas, a clan name associated with various ruling Rajput families in the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan from ...
Gogaji, also known as Gogaji Jaharveer Maharaj or Jaharveer Chauhan, is a folk Hindu deity in northern India. [1] He is worshipped in the northern states of India especially in Rajasthan , Himachal Pradesh , Haryana , Uttarakhand , Punjab region , Uttar Pradesh , Jammu and Gujarat . [ 2 ]
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'.
The Indian animated film Veer Yodha Prithviraj Chauhan (2008) was released by Rakesh Prasad. Prithviraj was also one of the first historical figures to be covered in Amar Chitra Katha (No. 25). [98] Many of these modern retellings depict Prithviraj as a flawless hero, and emphasize a message of Hindu national unity.
According to Hindu Mythology these Gotra Rajputs are Chauhan Rajput and they are entitled to protect the Middle Himalayas and four Dhams (Currently in Uttarakhand). Many Bachas or Bachal Rajputs are said to get the name from queen Bachchal (Hindi: बाछल), who was mother of famous folk-deity, Jaharveer Gogaji.
Balarama Deva or Balaram Deo was the first Chauhan ruler of Sambalpur State and the tenth in line ruler of the Chauhan dynasty in the Western Odisha region during the sixteenth century. He was a powerful ruler and an excellent military strategist who ruled the hilly and forest tracts of western Odisha that was mostly inhabited by different ...
Alha (ISO: Ālhā) was a legendary general of the Chandel king Paramardideva (also known as Parmal), who fought Prithviraj Chauhan in 1182 CE. He is one of the main characters of the Alha-Khand ballad.
There is another, only slightly different version of this legend. Roopsingh Chauhan was the ruler of Khatu. His wife, Narmada Kanwar, once had a dream in which the deity instructed her to take his image out of the earth. The indicated place (now known as Shyam Kund) was then dug up. Sure enough, it yielded the idol, which was duly enshrined in ...