Solanki Gurjars

***Solanki*** is one of the important clan group found in the Gujjar community India and Pakistan.

In Sindhi and Punjabi, they refer to it as ***Solangi*** in the regions of Sindh, South Punjab, and Balochistan. They're mostly Hindu in north Indian states, but some are also Muslim, largely in Pakistani areas.

## Origin

They  belonged to the Hindu lineage.

## Distributions

They are found in Pakistani provinces like in Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab. But they mainly inhabit in the Indian states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, and Dehli.

## Further reading

- Smt. Hiralaxmi Navanitbhai Shah Dhanya Gurjari Kendra (2007) Gujarat Gujarat Vishvakosh Trust. p.75 _"It was during the Solanki period that the region got the name 'Guriar Desh' or 'Gujarat'."_
- United Service Institution of India (1921) Journal of the United Service Institution of India: Volumes 50-51 p.335 _"The principal division of the Gujars in the Punjab District bears the name of Chohan.* The Solanki Oswals, the leading class of great king of Anhilvada is called the Gujar.* Western Indian Jains, are Gujars. In poems Bhim Solanki, the great king of Anhilvada is called the **Gujar**."_
- Bombay (India : State) (1904) Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Volume 27 Printed at the Government Central Press. p.143
- Horace Arthur Rose, Sir Denzil Ibbetson, Sir Edward Maclagan (1911) A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province: Based on the Census Report for the Punjab, 1883, Volume 2 superintendent, Government printing, Punjab. p.311
- Bombay (India : State) (1913) Annual Report of the Administration Government Central Press. p.8 _"In A.D. 946 the kingdom of Anahilaváda was conquered by Múlarája Solanki, son of a **Gujar** Chief who probably ruled somewhere in Northern Rajputána. A few years later (A.D. 973) a revolution took place in the Deccan also, when Tailapa II, who was connected in some way with the old Chalukya family, overthrew the Rashtrakútas and set up a new Chálukya kingdom, for whose capital Kalyan in the Deccan was soon chosen. His, follower Bårappa founded a subordinate dynasty in Southern Gujarát, but further south the Siláháras still continued to rule the coast."_
- Robert Vane Russell (1916) pt. II. Descriptive articles on the principal castes and tribes of the Central Provinces Macmillan and Company, limited. p.169
- James Sutherland Cotton, Sir Richard Burn, Sir William Stevenson Meyer, William Meyer (1907) Imperial Gazetteer of India Clarendon Press. p.281 _"In 941 (961?) the kingdom of Anhilvāda was conquered by Mūlarājā Solanki, son of a **Gujar** chief who probably ruled somewhere in northern Rajputana."_
- Bombay (India : State) (1921) Bombay, a Review of the Administration of the Presidency Printed at the Government Central Press. p.6
- V. Verma (2000) Ban-Gujars: A Nomadic Tribe in Himachal Pradesh B.R. Publishing Corporation. p.43 ISBN:978-8176461122
- Omacanda Hāṇḍā (1998) Textiles, Costumes, and Ornaments of the Western Himalaya Indus Publishing Company. p.258 ISBN:978-8173870767

## Other websites

- "About Patan: Shree Patan Jain Mandal"

## Infobox (caste)

- **caste name**: **Solanki**, **Solangi**
- **ethnicity**: Gurjar (Gujjar)