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Gaur Brahmins likely originated from [[Kurukshetra]] region.<ref name=":0" /> Initially inhabiting tracts of land between the [[Yamuna]] and [[Sutlej]] rivers. Today they are most numerous in the western half of [[Northern India]], particularly in the states of [[Delhi]], [[Haryana]], [[Punjab]], [[Rajasthan]] as well as in the western parts of [[Uttar Pradesh]] and [[Madhya Pradesh]] and a significant amount are present in other northern states of India as well.<ref name="NJC_2017">{{cite book |author=James G. Lochtefeld |url=https://archive.org/details/TheIllustratedEncyclopediaOfHinduism.../page/n273/mode/2up |title=The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism |publisher=Rosen |year=2002 |isbn=9780823931804 |pages= |url-access=registration |archive-url= |archive-date=}}</ref> | Gaur Brahmins likely originated from [[Kurukshetra]] region.<ref name=":0" /> Initially inhabiting tracts of land between the [[Yamuna]] and [[Sutlej]] rivers. Today they are most numerous in the western half of [[Northern India]], particularly in the states of [[Delhi]], [[Haryana]], [[Punjab]], [[Rajasthan]] as well as in the western parts of [[Uttar Pradesh]] and [[Madhya Pradesh]] and a significant amount are present in other northern states of India as well.<ref name="NJC_2017">{{cite book |author=James G. Lochtefeld |url=https://archive.org/details/TheIllustratedEncyclopediaOfHinduism.../page/n273/mode/2up |title=The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism |publisher=Rosen |year=2002 |isbn=9780823931804 |pages= |url-access=registration |archive-url= |archive-date=}}</ref> | ||
In Sir George Campbell's Ethnology of India, it is suggested that Gaurs may have derived their names from the [[Ghaggar | Ghaggar-Hakra River]], which, in ancient times, was a tributary of Saraswati and now discharges its waters into the [[Sutlej]] near [[Firozpur]].<ref name=":0">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xlpLAAAAMAAJ |title= Hindu Castes and Sects: An Exposition of the Origin of the Hindu Caste System and the Bearing of the Sects Towards Each Other and Towards Other Religious Systems |editor=[[Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya]] |publisher=Spink Thacker |year=1896 |isbn=9781298966339 |page=52 }}</ref> | |||
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