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Sengar are a clan of Rajputs in India. [1]

The central Indian state Madhya Pradesh was the location of battles and lesser-known rule of the Sengar Rajputs. In the eleventh century CE, they migrated from Jalaun to the fertile area of Rewa district known as Mauganj. They constructed garhis (forts) in Mauganj,Hanumana Nai Garhi, Mangawan, and Bichhrata that was historically known as 'Mau Raj'. This kingdom battled and survived the invasion of the Kalachuris. [2] :68

Accordingly, Sengars were the offsprings of the Brahmin named Singhi [3] who was the son-in-law of Gaharwar raja of Kannauj, married to his daughter Shanta. Brahmin Singhi had two sons, from one son Gautam Rajputs were descended and from the other son Sengar Rajputs were descended.

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References

  1. Stokes, Eric (1980). The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India. Cambridge University Press. pp. 78–81. ISBN   9780521297707.
  2. Baker, David E.U., ed. (2007) [2007]. Baghelkhand, Or, the Tigers' Lair: Region and Nation in Indian History. Vol. 1 (Reprinted ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 68, 88, 195. ISBN   9780195683219.
  3. Singh, Kashi N. (June 1968). "The Territorial Basis of Medieval Town and Village Settlement in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 58 (2): 203–220. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1968.tb00640.x. JSTOR   2561611.(subscription required)

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