Nanwag (Nandwak) Rajputs: Difference between revisions

Nanwag Rajput is a branch of the Rajput community that resides in Uttar Pradesh and belongs to the Kaushika Gotra. <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>