Kushan (clan)

Kushan, or Kushana is a clan of India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Also in some regions, especially Punjab and Kashmir. 

Variation and entomology
They are historically also known by various variation including, Kushana, Kushan, Kusane, Gusano,Koshano, Kusana.  

Kasanas claim to have been derived from Kushan, a clan of India and Pakistan. The word Kasana is also used as a clan named by some Muslims and Sikhs. 

History

According to General Cunningham the former head of Archeological survey of India that, the Korso' and 'Kushan' written on the coins of Kushan king Kanishk is same as Gorsi and Kusane (Kushan) clans of an ethnic community of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

According to Vidhya Prakash Tyagi, the Kushan were a native family in Peshawar, which is why Kanishk spared Patna's Ruler Subahu Nagar. The family was known as Devaputra.

The word Gusur is referenced in Kushan King Kanishka's Rabatak inscription. According to some academics, the word gusur, which signifies "Kulputra" or "man or woman born into a low family," stands for "Gusur" in this inscription. Even today  in Central Asia some of them are referred to as Gusur.

Many historians and scholars believed that the Kushan Empire and prominent emperor of the Kushana empire Kanishka Belonged to Kushana clan. They once established and ruled in the Kushan Empire.   

The Kushans claimed to be the descendants of Raja Kans, Lord Krishna's maternal uncle, swear by lightning and do not own any bronze utensils. This legend is about the creation of the world.

The believer of the myth, that they are foreigners, like Sir James Campbell, General Crook, Colonel Todd, Mr. forbs, Dr. Bhagwan Lal Inder Ji and all other has agree that present Kasana can be the successors of Kushans.

 Geographic distributions
They live in Pakistani provinces of west Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, Khyber pakhtunKhwa, Azad Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan. They also live in some provinces of  Afghanistan including Kabul, Nuristan and Kandhahar. While in Indian states including the Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, east Punjab, Uttarakhand and Delhi.

Languages
They speak a variety of languages within their local regions, but in Jammu and Kashmir, Khayber PakhtunKhwa, Azad kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, Himachal Pradesh, Utrakhand, and Afghanistan, they speak their mother tongue Gujari language.

References

Category:Ethnic groups in Pakistan
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