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The city of Lahore has a history of Hindu presence. The earliest princes were said to be Rajputs from Ayodhya, of the same family as those who reigned in Gujrat and Mewar. [citation needed] Hieun Tsang, the Chinese traveller, who visited the Punjab in 630 AD, speaks of a large city, containing many thousands of families, chiefly Brahmans, situated on the eastern frontier of the kingdom of ...
Pakhrals reside mainly in Pothohar Plateau including Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Upper Salt Range region, while some tribes are in Azad Kashmir, Indian-administered Kashmir, Punjab, Hazara and Dera Ismail Khan. Potohar area is famous as Pakhral Rajputs area. Raja is mostly used as a title in Pakhral Rajputs which is derived from the word Rajput.
The Kakan Rajputs [4] [5] are a branch of the Suryavanshi [6] (Solar Dynasty) Rajputs. [7] They trace their lineage back to the ancient King Dasharatha [8] ’s second queen, Kaikeyi, [9] the mother of Bharat, [10] mentioned in the Ramayana. The Kakan Rajputs identify themselves as descendants of the Kaikeyi and the illustrious Bharat, thus ...
The Sodhas of Amarkot were a Rajput [2] dynasty who ruled Amarkot, which is now located in the Sindh province of Pakistan.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.
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 ...
Gandhāra is the name of an ancient region located in present-day north-west Pakistan and parts of north-east Afghanistan. [5] [6] [7] The region centered around the Peshawar Valley and Swat river valley, though the cultural influence of "Greater Gandhara" extended across the Indus river to the Taxila region in Potohar Plateau and westwards into the Kabul Valley in Afghanistan, and northwards ...
Raghbir Singh Pathania, British Indian officer who served and was killed in World War I [99] Dalpat Singh, son of Thakur Hari Singh Shekhawat, was a British Indian officer, known as the "Hero of Haifa" for his actions in the Battle of Haifa during World War I. [100] Hanut Singh, British Indian officer, son of Pratap Singh of Idar, served in ...
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'.