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The Chauhan Koli (also spelled as Chouhan Koli and Chohan Koli) (Hindi: चौहान कोली) is a clan (gotra) of the Koli caste living in the Gujarat and Rajasthan states in India.

Chauhan Koli
ચૌહાણ કોળી
Clan (Gotra) of Koli caste
EthnicityKoli people
Location
VarnaWarrior
Parent tribe
  • Kolis of Gujarat
  • Kolis of Rajasthan
  • Kolis of Uttarpradesh
Demonym(s)Koli
Branches
Language
ReligionHindu
Surnames

Indian historian L.S. Vishwanath states that before the independence of India, Chauhan Kolis had matrimonial alliances with poor and low-caste Rajputs. Because the poor Rajputs were unable to give much dowry in the marriage of their daughters, so the poor Rajputs married their Rajput girls to the rich Koli families of Chauhan, Rathore and Solanki clans, and after which the Koli caste people started claiming themselves to be Kshatriyas and were called Nava-Kshatriyas.

Principlities

References

  1. Roy, Shibani (1983). Koli Culture: A Profile of the Culture of Talpad Vistar. Delhi, India: Cosmo Publications. p. 98.
  2. Perez, Rosa Maria (2004). Kings and Untouchables: A Study of the Caste System in Western India. New Delhi, India: Orient Blackswan. p. 71. ISBN 978-81-8028-014-6.
  3. Doshi, Shambu Lal (1995). Anthropology of Food and Nutrition. Delhi, India: Rawat Publications. p. 67. ISBN 978-81-7033-278-7.
  4. Vishwanath, L. S. (2000). Female Infanticide and Social Structure: A Socio-historical Study in Western and Northern India. New Delhi, India: Hindustan Publishing Corporation. p. 38. ISBN 978-81-7075-057-4.
  5. The Hind Rajasthan, Or, The Annals of the Native States of India. New Delhi, India: Usha Publications. 1985. pp. 64–198.

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