Sardana (name)

Last updated June 16, 2024

Sardana, the surname also being spelled, Sadana , is a given name and surname. It may refer to the following people:

Given name

Sardana Oyunskaya (1934–2007), Yakut folklorist, literary critic, and philologist
Sardana Avksentyeva (born 1970), Russian politician of Yakut ethnicity, mayor of Yakutsk (2018–21)
Sardana Trofimova (born 1988), Russian long distance runner

Surname

Khatris from Punjab carry the surname in India. Sardana is a descendant of a Khatri Hindu king(Kshatriya)who ruled for a long time and donated his head to protect his subjects. Later his family had to settle in a village in Multan(West Punjab). We get its proof in the biography of Pandit Gurudutt Vidyarthi (Sardana) and In the Short Ethnographical History of Arorvansh or Arorbans Panchayat(1888). After the 1947 Partition Sardana's came from West Punjab to East Punjab and spread across the India or World.

Proof 1

Short Ethnographical History of Arorbans Panchayat

In 1881 in Lahore, Punjab, an English writer had declared Khatri and Arora as different, due to which Arora Vansh Panchayat, in 1888, while replying, made a record of 16 pages, in which they wrote the history and told that they are not different but one and the same. They said that this thing has been done to divide the Aroras who were Khatris of Sindh and Khatris of Punjab (Malhotra, Kapoor, Bedi, Sodhi, etc.) separately, so that they could not fight the British. They also told that what kind of Kshatriyas we are and what are our customs, in which they also told the history of Sardana surname (Khatri).This was written in the history document of Arorbansh Panchayat:

In the primitive period of the society the Aroras(Arorvanshi khatri) were devoted to Government service as well as to trade etc. A sub-division of our caste called SARDANA believes that they are the descendants of a Rajput king(The word Rajput is used for the son of a king and not for caste) who laid down his head (life and soul) in the defence of his country and whose family later migrated to a village near Multan. They have a family history which proves without any hesitation the foregoing statement that our community is definitely the descendants of true Kshatriyas and they have such deeds which are the characteristics of a true Kshatriya

Proof 2

Gurudutt Vidyarthi Biography

"The works of the Pandit Guru Datta Vidyarthi, with biographical sketch". In Page number 3:

Pandit gurudatta was born at multan on 26th april , 1864. Multan is a Unique city in some respects in the punjab. The climate is dry but salubrious the temprature seldom falls below 110 degrees. The soil is not much productive, date palms are grown in abundance and the Multani dates are prized all over the province for their sweetness. The dust storms and Quent and the city and it's surrounding may be seen covered with a trick haze,especially in the summer season, when sultry winds continue blowing all the day . These surrounding, however unpleasant they may appear to people living in the south- eastern districts ,have producted a strong and hardy race, strong in constitution and robust in intellect. They have been instrumental in developing special traits which give dignity to character. Born and brought up amid such environments, the toughness of fibre which marked pandit gurudatta was a matter of course. But there was also an additional reason for it. He came of a family which had,for successive generations,distinguished itself in the battlefield, and which had at one time wielded the sceptre of sovereignty over a wide and extensive area. During the early period of Mohammedan invasions when the Hindu government was broken up into small principalities owing to internecine quarrels and rivarly, RAJA JAGDISH, the ancestor of the SARDANA FAMILY to which Pandit Gurudatta belonges,had made a bold stand against the tyrannical excesses of the foreign conquerors and had,in the serious complications that followed it ,sacrificed his all ,even his life for the protection of his subjects. The blood of such an intrepid warrior eoursed through the veins of the sardana family and most of its successive members had given proof of their martial spirit by feats of heroic character.Ram Krishna, the father of our hero,had,however,no chance of distinguishing himself in the field. During his time,the government was fairly well settled, there was no longer prevailing that anarchy and confusion which has been the chief characteristic of the latter Mohammedan rule. He had consequently given himself up entirely to literary pursuits. He was a Persian scholar of great repute and one of the much respected members of the punjab educational department. Constitutionally he was strong ,quick-witted ,possessing a keen and penetrating intellect and a very tenacious memory he retained the vigour of his intellect to the very last . Commencing the study of Sanskrit late in life he acquired such a mastery over the language that he could write and speak it with easy

Popular Sardana's

Archana Sardana (born 1974), Indian BASE jumper
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References

1.Short Ethnographical History of Arorbans Panchayat https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Short_Ethnographical_History_of_Aror_Ban.html?id=suJAAQAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

2.The works of the Pandit Guru Datta Vidyarthi, with biographical sketch https://archive.org/details/worksofthepandit00vidyuoft/page/n3/mode/2up

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