In Hindu culture, the term gotra is considered to be equivalent to lineage. It broadly refers to people who are descendants in an unbroken male line from a common male ancestor or patriline. Generally, the gotra forms an exogamous unit, with marriage within the same gotra being regarded as incest and prohibited by custom. The name of the gotra can be used as a surname, but it is different from a surname and is strictly maintained because of its importance in marriages among Hindus, especially among castes. Pāṇini defines gotra as apatyam pautraprabhrti gotram, which means "the word gotra denotes the descendance, apatya, of a couple consisting of a pautra, a son and a bharti, a mother, i.e. a daughter-in-law." When a person says "I am Vipparla-gotra", he means that he traces his descent to the ancient sage Vipparla by an unbroken male descent.
Meo, also called Mewati, is an ethnic group from the Mewat Muslim Rajput community of north-western India which includes the Nuh district in Haryana and parts of adjacent Alwar district and Bharatpur district in Rajasthan. Meos are Muslim Rajputs and speak the Indo-Aryan Mewati language.
Chaudhary is an Indian hereditary title of honor, given to Ahirwar, Jats and Ghoti Kayasthas native to Haryana,Rajasthan,Uttar pradesh. Who originally hailed from royal families of zamindars. They were granted the Choudhury title as their surname. The holders first arose from the royal families of the ghoti clan also known as the Zamindars of Bengal who were originally known as Bhumipatis of Gour.
Kudan is a village in Sikar district in Rajasthan, India. It is relatively a well-developed village which is connected by roads and with all forms of modern communication facilities. The majority population of the village belongs to Jat community with Sunda and Maharia representing largest and second largest gotras respectively in terms of numbers. Moreover, other castes are Harijans and Nayaks(Dalits), Rajputs(Shekhawat), Kumhar(Kumawat), Brahmins, Khati(Jangir), Daroga, Nai (caste), Jat(kajla)and Jat(Phogawat). There is also a marginal population of Muslims as well.
Nangal Sirohi, famous for the painted Shekhavati Rajput architecture Havelis, is a Village in Mahendragarh district in the Indian state of Haryana. It is 9.5 km from Mahendragarh towards Narnaul in South Haryana.
The Dadhich Brahmins,also spelled Dadheech, which is their preferred spelling, are a subgroup of Brahmins in the state of Rajasthan, India.
Dhani or Thok is a type of hamlet, the smallest conglomeration of houses, in sandy Bagar region of northwestern states of Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab in India. Per Census of India, 70% of Indians live in villages. 80% of the villages have a population of less than 1000 people and each consists of a cluster of hamlets. Most dhanis are nucleated settlements, while others are more dispersed. A dhani could be as small as one isolated house for a single family or a small cluster of several houses which could grow in number with successive generations, and even become a village by itself. All families living in a dhani are relatives or at least are of the same caste. An isolated collection of several of dhanis, which could be few hundred meters apart, constitutes a gram panchayat village community. A typical dhani in the arid zone of Rajasthan is a cluster of huts with a boundary made of dried shrubs around it and with owners' livestock such as goats, sheep and camels inside the bara. Dhani are atypically mud huts in Rajasthan. Houses in dani nowadays are made of modern brick and mortar, specially in affluent higher-per-capita-income states of Haryana and Punjab, and some richer families of Rajasthan.
The Mirasi are a community found in North India and Pakistan. They are the genealogists and traditional singers and dancers of a number of communities. The word "mirasi" is derived from the Arabic word (ميراث) mīrās, which means inheritance or sometimes heritage.
Bijwari is a village in Wair tehsil of Bharatpur in Rajasthan, India. It is a village of Indolia gotra Jats. It was founded by Vijay Singh. The village is located on the banks of river Baanganga which flows across the geographical area of Rajasthan.
Thakur is a historical feudal title of the Indian subcontinent. It is also used as a surname in the present day. The female variant of the title is Thakurani or Thakurain, and is also used to describe the wife of a Thakur.
Baloda is a village in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Its mandal is Surajgarh and district is Jhunjhunu. It is located 17.7 kilometres (11.0 mi) from Surajgarh, 54.2 kilometres (33.7 mi) from Jhunjhunu, and 157 kilometres (98 mi) from Jaipur.
Birodi Bari or Birodi Badi or Bidodi Badi or Beerodi Bari is a village in the Laxmangarh administrative region of Sikar district of Indian state Rajasthan. It lies 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Laxmangarh and 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) west of Nawalgarh. It borders Khinwasar, Bidsar, Bidasar, Birodi Chhoti, Jhadhewa, Jogiyon ka bas, Ramsingh Pura and Bhoodha Ka Bas villages.
Bidasar or Beedasar is a village in the Laxmangarh administrative region of Sikar district of Indian state Rajasthan. It lies 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) east of Laxmangarh and 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of Nawalgarh. It borders Khinwasar, Birodi Bari, Bidsar, Birodi Chhoti, Jogiyon ka bas, and Brahmino ki Dhani villages.
Meethari Marwar is a village in Ladnun tehsil of Nagaur district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.
Kalali is a village and administrative unit with a democratically elected panchayat samiti in the Loharu, Siwani Tehsil of Bhiwani District under Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha constituency and Hisar Division of Haryana state.
Kuldhara is an abandoned village in the Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan, India. Established around the 13th century, it was once a prosperous village inhabited by Paliwal Brahmins. It was abandoned by the early 19th century for unknown reasons, possibly because of dwindling water supply, an earthquake, or as a local legend claims, because of the atrocities by the Jaisalmer State's minister Salim Singh.
Mahil Gaila in the district of Jullundur, Punjab, India is the ancestral village of the Mahal family.
Khera Kalan is a census-designated town in the North district of the Indian territory of Delhi.
Modern historians agree that Rajputs consisted of a mix of various different social groups and different varnas. Rajputisation explains the process by which such diverse communities coalesced into the Rajput community.
