Chauhan (surname)
Appearance
Chauhan is a surname[1][2][3] of various Indian communities.[4][note 1]
Notable people
[edit]- Anil Chauhan
- Phagu Chauhan
- Dara Singh Chauhan
- Sanjay Singh Chauhan
- Anshul Chauhan
- Anuja Chauhan
- Ashok Chavan
- Bahadur Singh Chauhan
- Charlie Chauhan
- Chetan Chauhan
- Gajendra Chauhan
- Gogaji Chauhan
- Hammir Dev Chauhan, King of Ranthambore
- Jagjit Singh Chauhan
- Maneet Chauhan
- Mohit Chauhan
- Prabhu Chauhan
- Prithviraj Chauhan, King of Delhi
- Prithviraj Chavan
- Rajesh Chauhan
- Rajkumar Chauhan
- Ravi Chauhan
- Rohit Jugraj Chauhan
- Sanjay Chauhan (politician), mayor of Shimla Municipal Corporation
- Sanjay Singh Chauhan (born 1961), Gujjar leader
- Sanjay Chauhan (screenwriter) (born 1962), Indian screenwriter
- Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan (born 1975), Indian film director and screenwriter
- Sahab Singh Chauhan
- Captain Sanjay Chauhan, Indian soldier
- Shivraj Singh Chauhan
- Sonal Chauhan
- Sonika Chauhan
- Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
- Sunidhi Chauhan
- Vikram Singh Chauhan
- Hemant Chauhan
- Ian Dev Singh Chauhan
- Aditi Chauhan
- Siddharth Chauhan
- Neha Chauhan
- Devesh Chauhan
See also
[edit]- Prithviraj Chauhan
- Chuhandanda, Nepalese village named after Kshetri Chuhans
References
[edit]- ^ Chuahan Rajput regime Caste Structure
Chauhan is an Rajput Clan found in the Indian state of Rajasthan and various other bordering region share common territory with Rajasthan. Some of the Chauhan Rajput migrated to Maharashtra and eventually start resembling their identification within the distinct member of Pardeshi Rajput community[5][6]
Books
[edit]- Regmi, Mahesh Chandra (1987), Regmi Research Series, vol. 19, Regmi Research Centre
- ^ Pal, Vijay Kumar. Black Dots of Terrorism. Rudra Publications. p. 92. ISBN 978-93-90835-65-2.
Chauhan surname is very common in Hindu and Muslims.
- ^ Ram, Sodhi (1989). Indian Immigrants in Great Britain. Inter-India Publications. p. 183. ISBN 978-81-210-0242-4.
Again the region's first or second name helps in distinguishing between the two. For example, for such a surname as 'Chauhan', other names make the distinction as follows: Punjab Region Gujarat Region Other names Male Joginder Lal Nathubhai Female Nachhatar Kaur Dhanuben Surname Chauhan Chauhan Though most of the persons from the ...
- ^ Chaudhry, Minakshi (1998). Exploring Pangi Himalaya: A World Beyond Civilization. Indus Publishing. p. 86. ISBN 978-81-7387-084-2.
- ^ Rathore, Virendra Singh (2020-09-29). Prithviraj Chauhan - a Light on the Mist in History. Virendra Singh Rathore. p. 02. ISBN 978-1-63640-019-8.
... Chauhan clan is one such old Rajput (Rājpūt) clan, famed to have crossed swords with all that time threw at them – Huns, Turks, Mughals, Afghans, and Marathas. The term Chauhan is an Apabhraṃsha of Chahamana (Chāhamāna)
- ^ Singh, Kumar Suresh; Bhanu, B. V.; India, Anthropological Survey of (2004). Maharashtra. Popular Prakashan. ISBN 978-81-7991-100-6.
The Pardeshi Rajput community recognizes the gotri (clan) system. It regulates the marriage alliances. A person cannot marry within his own gotri (clan). Parihar, Chauhan, Chandel, Gherwal, Sengar, Rathod, Sesodia (raghuvansi), Pavar, Gaur, Gautam, Kachhwah, Kashyap, Koushalya, Shandilya, Bhargav, Surajvanso, Chandravansi, etc. are some notable clans of the Pardeshi Rajput which are also used as surnames.
- ^ Pillai, Sohini Sarah (2024). Krishna's Mahabharatas: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative. Oxford University Press. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-19-775355-2.
While Sengar does not share his sources for these claims about Chauhan's background, the assumptions that Chauhan was either a king or a zamindar are likely based on the poet's surname. The last name of the Bhasha Mahabhärat's author suggests that he was a member of the Chauhan clan of the larger Kshatriya community in North and Central India, known as Rajputs. Several North Indian texts including Nayachandra Suris fifteenth-century Sanskrit Hammiramahakavya (Mahakavya on Hammira), Chand Baradaïs sixteenth-century Bhasha Prthvirajraso (Story of Prithviraj), and Chandrashekhara's seventeenth-century Sanskrit Surjanacarita (Deeds of Surjan) present kings of the Chauhan clan as heroic Rajput warriors.