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	The Agrawals claim descent from king [[Agrasen]] of the [[Hindu mythology\|mythological]] [[Suryavansha\|Solar Dynasty]].<ref name="Mittalp675">{{cite book \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rrh4tY3v2A4C&pg=PA675 \|title=History of Ancient India: From 4250 BC to 637 AD \|first=J. P. \|last=Mittal \|page=675 \|publisher=Atlantic Publishers \|year=2006 \|isbn=978-81-269-0616-1}}</ref>		The Agrawals claim descent from king [[Agrasen]] of the [[Hindu mythology\|mythological]] [[Suryavansha\|Solar Dynasty]].<ref name="Mittalp675">{{cite book \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rrh4tY3v2A4C&pg=PA675 \|title=History of Ancient India: From 4250 BC to 637 AD \|first=J. P. \|last=Mittal \|page=675 \|publisher=Atlantic Publishers \|year=2006 \|isbn=978-81-269-0616-1}}</ref>
			List of Surnames of Agarwal community along with Gotra: https://www.allindiaagarwal.com/gotra.php/
	==History==		==History==
	Agrawals are a part of the larger [[Bania (caste)\|Bania]] community, which includes other mercantile communities, such as the [[Maheshwari]] and [[Oswals]].<ref name="Hanks2003">{{cite book \|last1=Hanks \|first1=Patrick \|title=Dictionary of American Family Names \|date=8 May 2003 \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|isbn=978-0-19-977169-1 \|page=xcvi \|language=en\|quote=The Banias of northern India are really a cluster of several communities, of which the Agarwal Banias, Oswal Banias, and Porwal Banias are mentioned separately in connection with certain surnames.}}</ref>		Agrawals are a part of the larger [[Bania (caste)\|Bania]] community, which includes other mercantile communities, such as the [[Maheshwari]] and [[Oswals]].<ref name="Hanks2003">{{cite book \|last1=Hanks \|first1=Patrick \|title=Dictionary of American Family Names \|date=8 May 2003 \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|isbn=978-0-19-977169-1 \|page=xcvi \|language=en\|quote=The Banias of northern India are really a cluster of several communities, of which the Agarwal Banias, Oswal Banias, and Porwal Banias are mentioned separately in connection with certain surnames.}}</ref>

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{{Short description|A Bania community in the Indian subcontinent}}
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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = Agrawal
| image = Maharja Agrasena.jpeg
| caption = [[Agrasen|Maharaja Agrasen]], the legendary king from whom Agrawals claim descent
| regions = India, Pakistan
| langs = [[Hindi language|Hindi]], [[Rajasthani language|Rajasthani]], [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], [[Hariyanvi]]
| rels = Majority: [[Vaishnava]] [[Hinduism]]<br> Minority: [[Jainism]], [[Islam]], [[Christianity]]<ref name="Harrison2015">{{cite book |last1=Harrison |first1=Selig S. |title=India: The Most Dangerous Decades |date=8 December 2015 |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |isbn=978-1-4008-7780-5 |page=115 |language=English |quote=Some subsects of the Oswals and Agarwals were converted to Jainism in the 16th century.}}</ref><ref name="SikandKatju1994"/>
}}
'''Agrawal''' ([[anglicised]] as '''Agarwal''', '''Agerwal''', '''Agrawala''', '''Agarwala''', '''Agarwalla''', '''Aggarwal''', '''Agarawal''', '''Agarawala''') is a [[Bania (caste)|Bania]] community found throughout northern, central and western India, mainly in the states of [[Rajasthan, India|Rajasthan]], [[Haryana, India|Haryana]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], [[Chandigarh]], [[Himachal Pradesh]], [[Uttarakhand]], [[Delhi NCR|Delhi]], [[Chhattisgarh]], [[Gujarat]] and [[Uttar Pradesh]].<ref name="Hanks2003"/><ref>https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/TYwWWYXGX3L72a1psxhe3N/A-history-of-the-Agarwals.html</ref> Members of the Agarwal community were also found in what are now the Pakistani provinces of [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]] and [[Sindh]], though at the time of the [[partition of India]], most of them migrated across the newly created border to independent India.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gupta |first=Babu Lal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OJQrAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y |title=Trade and Commerce in Rajasthan During the 18th Century |page=88|date=1987 |publisher=Jaipur Publishing House |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Das2012">{{cite book |last1=Das |first1=Sibir Ranjan |title=Resilience and Identity in Urban India: Anthropology of Barmer and Tehri |date=2012 |publisher=[[Anthropological Survey of India]] |isbn=978-81-922974-9-1 |page=107 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Gulzar Ahmed Chaudhry|date=4 June 2014|title=Nagar Mahal – from Agarwals to Sukheras|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1110497 |work=[[DAWN (newspaper)|Dawn]]}}</ref> Most Agarwals follow the [[Vaishnava]] denomination of [[Hinduism]], though some have converted to [[Jainism]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Goh |first=Robbie B. H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LyJLDwAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PP1&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora: Abjected Identities, Evangelical Relations, and Pentecostal Visions |date=2018-02-08 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=978-1-4384-6944-7 |language=en|quote=Agarwal recounts how the news of his own conversion was greeted by his grandmother in Punjab...}}</ref><ref name="SikandKatju1994">{{cite journal |last1=Sikand |first1=Yoginder |last2=Katju |first2=Manjari |title=Mass Conversions to Hinduism among Indian Muslims |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |date=20 August 1994 |volume=29 |issue=34 |pages=2214–2219 |language=en}}</ref> Agrawals are divided into eighteen exogamous clans (gotras).{{cn|date=August 2021}} Many members of this community use their caste name Agarwal as their surname, while others use that of their gotras.{{cn|date=August 2021}}

Members of the Agrawal community are known for their business skills and have for many years been influential and prosperous in India.{{cn|date=August 2021}} Even in modern-day tech and ecommerce companies, they continue to dominate. It was reported in 2013, that for every 100 in funding for e-commerce companies in India, 40 went to firms founded by an Agrawal.<ref>{{cite news |first=Harsimran |last=Julka |author2=Radhika P. Nair |date=12 February 2013 |title=Why young Aggarwals dominate India's e-commerce start-ups |url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-02-12/news/37059057_1_e-commerce-founder-agrawals |work=[[The Economic Times]] | location=Delhi}}</ref>

==Legend==
[[File:Agrasen ki Baoli, New Delhi, India - 20070127.jpg|250px|thumb|[[Agrasen ki Baoli]] in Delhi, which was built by the Agarwal during the [[Tughlaq dynasty]] in India.<ref>{{cite book |title=Down to Earth: Science and Environment Fortnightly, Volume 16, Issues 16-24 |date=2008 |publisher=Society for Environmental Communications |page=71 |language=en |quote=Resembling Tughlak period architectures, it was probably constructed by the Agrawal community (tracing back to Maharaja Agrasen).}}</ref>]]

The Agrawals claim descent from king [[Agrasen]] of the [[Hindu mythology|mythological]] [[Suryavansha|Solar Dynasty]].<ref name="Mittalp675">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rrh4tY3v2A4C&pg=PA675 |title=History of Ancient India: From 4250 BC to 637 AD |first=J. P. |last=Mittal |page=675 |publisher=Atlantic Publishers |year=2006 |isbn=978-81-269-0616-1}}</ref>

==History==
Agrawals are a part of the larger [[Bania (caste)|Bania]] community, which includes other mercantile communities, such as the [[Maheshwari]] and [[Oswals]].<ref name="Hanks2003">{{cite book |last1=Hanks |first1=Patrick |title=Dictionary of American Family Names |date=8 May 2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-977169-1 |page=xcvi |language=en|quote=The Banias of northern India are really a cluster of several communities, of which the Agarwal Banias, Oswal Banias, and Porwal Banias are mentioned separately in connection with certain surnames.}}</ref>

===Migration to Rajput kingdoms===
During the era of [[Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent|Islamic administrative rule in India]], some Agarwal, as with the [[Sarawagi|Saraogi]], migrated to the [[Bikaner State]].{{cn|date=August 2021}} The [[Malkana]] include Muslim Agarwals, who converted from Hinduism to Islam during this time and were given land tracts along the [[Yamuna]] by Afghan rulers.<ref name="SikandKatju1994"/>

In the early 15th century, Agrawals (sweet maker) flourished as a Halwai trader community, under the [[Tomaras of Gwalior]].<ref name="ReferenceA">Kashtha Sangha Bhattarakas of Gwalior and Agrawal Shravakas, Dr. K. C. Jain</ref>{{fcn|date=August 2021}} According to several [[Sanskrit]] inscription at the [[Gwalior Fort]] in [[Gwalior District]], several traders (Sanghavi Kamala Simha, Khela Brahmachari, Sandhadhip Namadas etc.) belonging to ''Agrotavansha'' (Agrawal clan) supported the sculptures and carving of idols at the place.<ref>{{cite web
| url=http://www.webdunia.com/dharm/jain/gopachal/19_gopachal9.htm
| title=गोपाचल के जिन मन्दिर एवं प्रतिमाएँ
| publisher=Webdunia.com
| language=hi
| access-date=2007-06-02
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041224031241/http://www.webdunia.com/dharm/jain/gopachal/19_gopachal9.htm
| archive-date=24 December 2004
| url-status=dead
}}</ref>
Historian K.C. Jain comments:
{{cquote|Golden Age of the Jain Digambar Temple in Gwalior under the Tomara rulers inspired by the [[Kashtha Sangh|Kashtha]] Bhattarakas and their Jaina Agrawal disciples who dominated the Court of father and son viz. Dungar Singh (1425-59)and Kirti Singh (1459-80) with the Poet-Laureate [[Raighu]] as their mouthpiece and spokesman, a centenarian author of as many as thirty books, big and small of which two dozen are reported to be extant today. Verify the advent of the Hisar-Firuza-based Jain Agrawals who functioned as the ministers and treasurers of the ruling family had turned the Rajput State of Gwalior into a Digambara Jain Centre par excellence representing the culture of the Agrawal multi-millionner shravakas as sponsored by them.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>}}

===Migration to Eastern India===

Later, during the Mughal rule, and during the [[British East India Company]] administration, some Agrawals migrated to [[Bihar]] and [[Calcutta]], who became the major component of the [[Marwaris]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Anne |last=Hardgrove |title=Community and Public Culture: The Marwaris in Calcutta, c. 1897–1997 |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-23112-216-0}}</ref>{{pn|date=August 2021}}

==Notable Agrawals==
{{main |List of Agrawals}}

== See also ==
* [[Agrawal Jain]]

== References ==
'''Notes'''
{{Notelist}}
'''Citations'''
{{Reflist|2}}

{{Authority control}}

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[[Category:Indian surnames]]
[[Category:Social groups of Rajasthan]]
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[[Category:Social groups of Delhi]]
[[Category:Social groups of Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Social groups of Punjab, India]]
[[Category:Social groups of Himachal Pradesh]]
[[Category:Social groups of Uttarakhand]]
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