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'''Khoshya''' ({{langx|hi|खोश्या}}) is a [[gotra]]<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=A glossary of the tribes and castes of the Punjab and North-West frontier province|author=Rose, H.A.|date=1999|volume=2|publisher=Low Price Publications|isbn=9788175361546|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=axkwAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=2015-05-14}}</ref> of [[Ahirs]] of [[Rajasthan]] and [[Haryana]] in India. According to historian Richard Gabriel Fox, Khoshya was dominant clan in [[Ahirwal]] whose ancestors occupied by force some [[Gujjar]] villages in Bharawas. One of the descendants of this clan, Chowdhari Deepchand was a sardar in the army of Emperor [[Alamgir II]] (1754–59).<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CAXULggU0QMC&q=sardar | title=Realm and Region in Traditional India| isbn=9780916994129| last1=Fox| first1=Richard Gabriel| year=1977}}</ref><ref>Realm and region in traditional India-page-83</ref><br />
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Alternately it is also found as a surname in the Brahmin community of Kashmir, known as the [[Kashmiri Pandits]].{{cn|date=October 2024}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Ahir]]<br />
* [[Haryana]]<br />
* [[Ahir clans]]<br />
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