Nanwag (Nandwak) Rajputs

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The '''Nanwag Rajputs''' are a branch of the [[chandravanshi|sisodiya]] [[Rajput]] of suryavansh <ref>{{Cite web|title=District Jaunpur, Government of Uttar Pradesh {{!}} Siraj-e-Hind {{!}} India|url=https://jaunpur.nic.in/|access-date=2021-08-25|language=en-US}}</ref> in what is now the Indian state of [[Uttar Pradesh]]. In the 16th century, they seized a portion of Pandrah [[pargana]] and ruled there for many years before losing it to a Punjabi and Brahmans.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Varanasi|publisher = Government of Uttar Pradesh|year = 1965|location = Uttar Pradesh|page = 44}}</ref> The villages of [[Kathiraon]], Newarhia (having fort of Nanwag chieftain, Zamindar Sangram Singh)<ref name=":2"/> lying at 25" 31' N longitude and 82" 80' E latitude (tahsil [[Mariahu]])<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title = Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Jaunpur|publisher = Government of Uttar Pradesh|year = 1986|location = Uttar Pradesh|pages = 295}}</ref> and Barsathi, latitude 25" 34' N and longitude 82" 91' E in [[Mariahu]] tehsil,<ref>{{Cite book|title = Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Jaunpur|publisher = Government of Uttar Pradesh|year = 1986|location = Uttar Pradesh|pages = 285}}</ref> were administered by the Nanwag Rajputs from the 16th century to the later part of the 19th century.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title = Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Varanasi|publisher = Government of Uttar Pradesh|year = 1965|location = Uttar Pradesh|pages = 403}}</ref> The whole of Mariahu tehsil was administered by them during the medieval period and the tehsil got its name from Mandav Dev, the presiding deity of Nanwags.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Jaunpur|publisher = Government of Uttar Pradesh|year = 1986|location = Uttar Pradesh|pages = 293}}</ref>

== Distribution ==
[[Jaunpur district|Jaunpur]] (Ataria and Madiyahun), [[Varanasi district|Benares]] (Vishnupur and Gobindpur), [[Azamgarh district|Azamgarh]], Allahabad and [[Mirzapur district|Mirzapur]] districts of erstwhile North West Province (now U.P.). Nanwag Rajputs are well distributed in [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[Bihar]] and Maharashtra ([[Mumbai]]).<ref>{{Cite book|title = Rajput clan-settlements in Varanasi District|last = Singh|first = Ram Bali|publisher = National Geographical Society of India|year = 1975|location = Varanasi, India|pages = 61,107}}</ref>{{qn|date=April 2018}}

Nanwag Rajputs are large and important Rajput clan in the district of Jaunpur, where they numbered at the last Census{{when|date=April 2018}} between 20,000-30,000. There are colonies of the Nanwags amounting to 100 families, or more, in each of the districts of Allahabad, Mirzapur, and Benares. A small number also is found in Azamgarh. In Benares district, the Nanwags are landlords. Sangram Singh, a [[zamindar]] of influence and position and a leader of Nanwag Rajputs in Jaunpur, revolted and defeated the [[British East India Company]] on several occasions. His old fort is still there in north of Newaria Bazar.<ref name=":2" />{{qn|date=April 2018}}

== See also ==
*[[Rajput clans]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Rajput clans of Uttar Pradesh]]

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