Yaduvanshi Rajputs is a term used for describing various Rajputs clans. Prominent among them are Bhatis, Jadejas, Jadaun, Sammas and Chudasamas.[1]

Due to identical lineages, many historians believe that the Yaduvanshi Rajputs evolved from the Yaduvanshi Ahirs.[2][3][4][5] Some scholars suggest that Chudasamas, Jadejas and Devagiri Yadavas descended from the Abhira dynasty which ruled around the same region.[6] Several inscriptions links the Chudasamas to Yadavas of the legendary Lunar dynasty.[7] According to these, Chudasamas were a branch of the Samma lineage that acquired the principality of Vanthali from the local ruler and subsequently occupied the already fortified city of Junagadh. Later inscriptions and the text Mandalika-Nripa-Charita link them to the Yadava family of the Hindu deity Krishna.[8] On the contrary, the Samma genealogy given in Tuhfatu-L Kiram, claims for them a lineage from Rama, the son of Dashrath.[9]

Samira Sheikh says that Chudasamas were originally pastoralists. She adds that, the Jadejas , Chudasamas , Bhatis and Sammas originate from four brothers—Aspat, Gajpat, Narpat and Bhupat—who descended from Krishna. This mythologised genealogy claims that the brothers first together conquered Egypt. After the Islamic conquest, Aspat converted to Islam and founded the Samma dynasty; then Gajpat conquered Ghazni; Bhupat established Bhatner; and Narpat, after first founding Nagar-Samoi in Sindh, became ancestor of Chandracuda, the first Chudasama ruler.[10][11] Similar claims with slightly different details have been recorded by past Indologists including Tod, Burgess, Desai and Rayjada. In addition, Tuhfat al Kiram, used by Elliot and Dowson in their History of India, records an Islamicised version of the myth.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Sheikh, Samira (1 May 2008). "Alliance, Genealogy and Political Power: The Cūdāsamās of Junagadh and the Sultans of Gujarat". The Medieval History Journal. 11 (1): 29–61. doi:10.1177/097194580701100102. ISSN 0971-9458.
  2. ↑ Soni, Lok Nath (2000). The Cattle and the Stick: An Ethnographic Profile of the Raut of Chhattisgarh. Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Department of Culture. ISBN 978-81-85579-57-3. Bhattacharya (1995: 237) has written," The Rajput generally repudiate all connections with the Ahir, though it seems very probable that the Yadubansi Kshatriyas were originally Ahirs".
  3. ↑ India, United Service Institution of (1911). Journal of the United Service Institution of India. Mr. Bhattacharya advances the proposition that Jadubans Rajputs are descended from Ahirs.
  4. ↑ Bhattacharya, Jogendra Nath (1896). Hindu Castes and Sects: An Exposition of the Origin of the Hindu Caste System and the Bearing of the Sects Towards Each Other and Towards Other Religious Systems. Thacker, Spink. The Rajputs generally repudiate all connection with the Ahirs, though it seems very probable that the Yadu Bansi Ksatriyas were originally Ahirs.
  5. ↑ commission, Great Britain Indian statutory (1930). Report of the Indian Statutory Commission ... H. M. Stationery Office. Mr. Bhattacharya, a distinguished historian , writes in his book the "Indian Castes and Tribes" : "It seens very probable that the Yadubansi Rajputs are derived from the Yadubansi Ahirs. The Narayani Army which the Krishna organised and which made him so powerful that his friendship was eagerly sought by the greatest kings of his time , is described in the Mahabharata as being all of the Ahir caste .
  6. ↑ Munshi, Kanaiyalal Maneklal (1943). The Glory that was Gūrjaradeśa: The pre-historic west coast. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. Some scholars, however, regard the Cūḍāsamās, Jāḍejās and Devagiri Yadavas as Ābhīras.
  7. ↑ Kapadia, Aparna (16 May 2018). Gujarat: The Long Fifteenth Century and the Making of a Region. Cambridge University Press. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-1-107-15331-8.
  8. ↑ Kapadia, Aparna (16 May 2018). Gujarat: The Long Fifteenth Century and the Making of a Region. Cambridge University Press. pp. 80–81. ISBN 978-1-107-15331-8.
  9. ↑ Elliot, Henry Miers (29 October 2021). The History of India: As told by its own Historians: Vol. I. BoD – Books on Demand. pp. 337, 338. ISBN 978-3-7525-2368-3.
  10. 1 2 Kapadia, Aparna (16 May 2018). Gujarat: The Long Fifteenth Century and the Making of a Region. Cambridge University Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-107-15331-8. in Sheikh, Samira (1 May 2008). "Alliance, Genealogy and Political Power: The Cūdāsamās of Junagadh and the Sultans of Gujarat". The Medieval History Journal. 11 (1): 29–61. doi:10.1177/097194580701100102. ISSN 0971-9458. S2CID 154992468.
  11. ↑ Kothiyal, Tanuja (2016). Nomadic Narratives: A History of Mobility and Identity in the Great Indian Desert. Cambridge University Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-107-08031-7.
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