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Jadeja
Samma Dynasty
sketch of Jadeja Chief Bharvaji Jadeja, 1838, by Mrs Postans.
Country	India and Pakistan
Current region	Kutch Sindh Saurashtra
Place of origin	Persia (Kutch)
Founded	1540
Founder	Jadaji
Connected families	Rajput
Estate(s)	Kutch State Nawanagar State Morvi State Dhrol State Gondal State Rajkot State

The Jadeja (also spelled Jarejo) is a Rajput clan who claims to be descended from Jamshed of Iran.

A Jadeja dynasty ruled the princely state of Kutch between 1540 and 1948, at which time India became a republic. This state had been formed by king Khengarji I, who gathered under him twelve Jadeja noble landowning families, who were also related to him, as well as two noble families of the Waghela community. Khengarji and his successors retained the allegiance of these Bhayat (chieftains) until the mid-18th century.

Among other territories or princely states ruled by Jadeja before independence of India, were Dhrol, Morvi, Rajkot, Nawanagar, and Virpur.

Although the British rulers found the tradition distasteful, the Jadeja's high social status and the rigid caste system that forbade intermarriage with lower social groups contributed to the community's tradition of female infanticide because it was difficult and costly to arrange suitable marriages for female offspring, with substantial dowries often being required. The practice continues to some degree today, although where modern facilities are available it may take the form of female foeticide.

Notable people

• Jam Rawal - founder of Nawanagar State
• Rajendrasinhji Jadeja - the first Chief of Army Staff of the Indian army and later Commander-in-Chief of the Indian armed forces and head the Indian Army - hailing from the ruling family of the Nawanagar State.

References

1. Rodrigues, Mario (2003). Batting for the Empire: A Political Biography of Ranjitsinhji. Penguin Books, 2003. p. 51. ISBN 9780143029519.
2. Goswamy, B. N. (1983). A Place Apart: Painting in Kutch, 1720-1820. Oxford University Press, 1983. p. 7. ISBN 9780195613117.
3. Syed, M. H. (2004). History Of The Delhi Sultanate (Set Of 2 Vols.). Anmol Publications Pvt. Limited, 2004. p. 240. ISBN 9788126118304.
4. Mcleod, John (6–9 July 2004). The Rise and Fall of the Kutch Bhayati (PDF). Eighteenth European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, University of Lund. pp. 1–5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
5. Gazetteers: Jamnagar District, Gujarat (India) - 1970 - Page 614 Before the integration of States, Dhrol was a Class II State founded by Jam Hardholji, the brother of Jam Raval, who hailed from the ruling Jadeja Darbar family of Kutch.
6. Rajkot. India. Superintendent of Census Operations, Gujarat. 1964. pp. 45–46.
7. ^ Indian Princely Medals: A Record of the Orders, Decorations, and Medals of ... By Tony McClenaghan. 1996. p. 207.
8. Gazetteers: Rajkot District. Directorate of Government Print., Stationery and Publications. 1965. p. 36.
9. Vishwanath, L. S. (2006). "Female Infanticide, Property and the Colonial State". In Patel, Tulsi (ed.). Sex-Selective Abortion in India: Gender, Society and New Reproductive Technologies. SAGE. pp. 275, 278–282. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
10. Gazette of India. 1953. p. 1475. Major General M. S. Pratapsinhji; 2. Major General M. S. Himatsinhji; 3. Maharaj Shri Duleepsinhji; and 4. Lieutenant General M. S. Rajendrasinhji; members of the family of the Ruler of Nawanagar for the purposes...

Further reading

• Mehta, Lyla (2005). The Politics and Poetics of Water: The Naturalisation of Scarcity in Western India. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan. ISBN 9788125028697.
• Lauterpacht, E., ed. (1976). International Law Reports. Vol. 50. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521463959.
• Dilipsinh, K. S. (2004). Kutch: In Festival And Custom. New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications. ISBN 9788124109984.
• Sen, Satadru (2005). Migrant Races: Empire, Identity and K.S. Ranjitsinhji. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719069260.

• Media related to Jadeja at Wikimedia Commons

• Hindu dynasties
• History of Gujarat
• History of Rajkot
• Rajput clans of Gujarat
• Tribes of Kutch