Bhadauria, also known as Bhadoria, Bhadouria, Bhadoriya, Bhadouriya, Bhadauriya, or Bhadauria, is a branch of the Chauhan

Chauhan

Chauhan, Chouhan or Chohan , , - is a clan who ruled parts of northern India in the Middle Ages. The clan is most famous for Rajput King Maharaja Prithviraj Chauhan...

 clan of Agnivanshi Rajput

Rajput

A Rajput is a member of one of the patrilineal clans of western, central, northern India and in some parts of Pakistan. Rajputs are descendants of one of the major ruling warrior classes in the Indian subcontinent, particularly North India...

s. According to some scholars, Chauhans are actually Suryavanshi and the story of Agnivansha is a based on a myth. They are known for their fighting skills and chivalry. The chief of this clan was the ruler of Bhadawar State in Bhind District

Bhind District

Bhind District is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India of Chambal region. The town of Bhind is the district headquarter....

, Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh , often called the Heart of India, is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and Indore is the largest city....

, India

India

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, before the Partition of India

Partition of India

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 in 1947. There is a big fort in the town of Ater near Bhind

Bhind

Bhind is a town in Bhind District, Madhya Pradesh, India.The chhatri of Malhar Rao Holkar at Alampur is great archaeology chhatri in Bhind district-Demographics:...

 that was built by the Bhadawar kings.

The majority of the Bhadurias live in Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

, Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh , often called the Heart of India, is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and Indore is the largest city....

, Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh

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, and Delhi

Delhi

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.

Description

The Bhadurias are members of the Agnivanshi branch of Rajputs. According to legend, they are descended from Agni

Agni

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, the Hindu

Hindu

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 God of fire. The Agnivanshi lineage according to some scholars is one of the three lineages into which the Kshatriya

Kshatriya

*For the Bollywood film of the same name see Kshatriya Kshatriya or Kashtriya, meaning warrior, is one of the four varnas in Hinduism...

 (warrior) caste of Hindus is divided, the other two races being the Suryavanshi and the Chandravanshi.

History

Manika Rae, was lord of Ajmer

Ajmer

Ajmer , formerly written as Ajmere, is a city in Ajmer District in Rajasthan state in India. Ajmer has a population of around 800,000 , and is located west of the Rajasthan state capital Jaipur, 200 km from Jodhpur, 274 km from Udaipur, 439 km from Jaisalmer, and 391 km from...

 and Sambhar, in the year S. 741, or AD 685. Prithviraj Chauhan was the descendant of Manika Rae. Manika Rae, whom we may consider as the founder of the Chauhans of the north, recovered Ajmer. He had a numerous progeny, who established many petty dynasties throughout Western Rajwara, giving birth to various tribes, which are spread even to the Indus. The Khichi

Khichi

Khichi is a Chauhan Rajput clan.-History and origin:Khichi is the name of a branch of the Chauhan clan of Agnivanshi rajputs. The Rajput Chauhan kingdom became the leading Rajput state and a powerful kingdom in Northern India under King Prithviraj III , also known as Prithviraj Chauhan or Rai...

, the Hara

Hara

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, the Mohil

Mohil

Mohil, Mial or Mohal is a branch of Chauhan Rajputs. Mohils are also one of the gotras of Yadavas. British Historians H.A. Rose, Ibbetson and Maclagan have stated Mohals as a gotra of Yaduvanshi Ahirs...

, the Nirban

Nirban

Nirban in Hindi निर्बान or निर्बान हीर also spelt as Narban or Nirwan is a big gotra of Yaduvanshi Ahirs of Haryana, some of the villages of Nirban are in Pataudi and in the Badli and Haidurpur villages of Delhi....

a, Bhadauria, the Bhaurechahe Dhanetiya, and the Baghrecha, are all descended from him.