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The Banaut /Bandawat (Bundela) are a branch of the Bundela Rajput found in the Indian state of Bihar, jharkhand, India.[1] They trace their Lineage from orchha bundelakhand and Jhansi. Banauts/Bandawats claim their ancestry from Raja Chatrasal of Bundelakhand

History and origin

The Banaut are found mainly in north-eastern Bihar. They have come originally from Orcha in Bundelkhand. The community are said to have left Orcha to escape the Mughals..The Banaut are distributed mainly in ,chouparan , Munger, Bhagalpur, Purnia, Saharsa, Katihar and Arariya. Rajput from Hazaribagh and Chatra in Jharkhand also from the same clan of Rajput.[2]

Present circumstances

. The Banaut speak Angika and most of them understand Hindi. They have their particular village deities such as Hanumanji, Ram-Janaki and Radhakrishna Prominent personalities.EX MLA RAM LAKHAN SINGH, Lt Laxmi Narayan Sudhanshu, ex chairperson of Bihar Vidhan Sabha. LT BABU CHHAVI NARAYAN SINGH . 1st President Of Bundela Samaj Lt Babu Gauri Prasad Singh.EX MLA 1952 CHAUPARAN VIDHAN SABHA . LT NAND KISHORE SINGH.EX MLA 1962. Babu Niranjan Prasad Singh . EX MLA BARHI VIDHAN SABHA 1980-1990 Smt Lessi Singh. MLA DHAMDHA VIDHAN SABHA . Shankar Singh, Ex MLA 60 RUPAULI Vidhan sabha 2005 .

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See also

References

  1. https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/78297/1/MPRA_paper_78297.pdf
  2. 2.0 2.1 People of India Bihar Volume XVI Part One edited by S Gopal & Hetukar Jha pages 100 to 103 Seagull Books