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The Natrayat Rajputs are Hindu caste found in the state of Rajasthan in India.
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The Natrayat Rajputs are Hindu caste found in the state of Rajasthan in India.
The community derives its name from the word nata, which means widow remarriage in Hindi. This practice, initially adopted by a group of Chauhan Rajputs changing their surnames from Chouhan To Chadana in Marwar, Rajasthan, and this led to their separation from the wider Rajput community, which disallows widow remarriage. The community also include a small number Panwar, Parihar and Rathore. The Natrayat are distributed in the transitional zone between Mewar and Marwar, occupying several villages in this hilly region. [1]
The community is endogamous, and divided into exogamous gotras, the Chadana, Unthed, Solanki, Rathore, Sisodiya, Parmar, Mundawat, Tanwar. They are mainly a community of small peasants farmers.
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