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Gulia (गुळिया) or Guliya (गुलिया) or Gulya(गुल्या) Galia (गलिया) is a gotra or clan of Jats found in Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in India. Dilip Singh Ahlawat has mention it as one of the ruling Jat clans in Central Asia. [1]Bhim Singh Dahiya has mentioned about a inscription of Wardak near Kabul of the year 51 of Saka era (129 AD), which relates the establishment of the relic of Lord Buddha in a stupa by Vagramarega who is shown as a scion of Kama Gulya. Here it is related with clan name Gulya of the Jats. [2] Wardak is associated with the history of Burdak Jat clan.

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History

They are the same as Kulya / Kuliya of the Puranas. The Markandeya Purana mentions them alongwith the Matsyas in Central India. Matsya Purana mentions a people named Kuliya. [3]

According to the bard of the Gulia clan, during the rule of Prithvi Raj Chauhan, Badli, a village in Rohtak, was ruled by Raja Badra Sen. Two Saiyad Sardars, Nasir Hussain Mashade and Ata-Ulla Mashade came from Kabul to Badli under the leadership, of Bir Saiyed Hussain to destroy Haryana and they became rulers after killing Badra Sen. They employed Roras and Kalals as tillers.

In 1192 Mohammed Ghori was victorious in the battle of Tarai and Prithvi Raj was killed. Seven Brahmin soldiers ran away from the field and hid themselves in a temple near a pond three miles south of Badli. They were the sons of Udai Chand Brahmin of Indergarh. Their names were Ausar, Dausar, Rahal, Ashal, Mahal and Chahal etc. They mistook wine as water and drank it. Their purity as Brahmins was thus polluted. They put their sacred threads in a gol (an oval vessel of clay). Therefore they were called Gulia Jats and they settled in Badli as tenants of the Mohammedans. The bard (Bhat) of Gulia clan has written above unbelievable story about the origin of this clan.


The other story is that, Badra Sen was an officer in the army of Prithvi Raj. Badli Pargana was his estate. He belonged to a Dhulia family of Indergarh. Before the Chauhan rule, Bhadra, Ajmer, Indergarh etc. were the capitals of the Gora Jats. After the death of Prithvi Raj there was chaos in the country. The Khokhar Jats slayed Mohammed Ghori near Multan. There was a woman named Bodli. The village was named Badli in her honour. Sant Sarang Dev's samadhi (shrine) still exists in Badli and is widely worshipped.

These Gulia Jats were very spirited. When Timur was supervising the massacre of Delhi, a Gulia youth, named, Harveer Gulia assaulted him.

Distribution in Haryana

There are 24 villages of Gulias near Badli (Rohtak district) and two other villages (Rurki and Sabti) a bit away from there. There are 12 more villages across the Yamuna one named Purkhas in the Sonipat distt.

There is a village named Bursham near Panipat,here live Jats of Gulia gotra.

Distribution in Rajasthan

Locations in Jaipur city

Airport Colony, Sanganer,

Villages in Jodhpur district

Ostaran,

Villages in Churu district

Rejdi Rajgarh,

Distribution in Madhya Pradesh

Bhopal, Mandsaur

Distribution in Uttar Pradesh

Villages in Meerut district

Chitauli,

Villages in Muzaffarnagar district

Bhaju, Rasulpur,

Notable persons of this gotra

Prahlad Singh Former District Agriculture Officer UP Govt

Reference

  1. ↑ Dilip Singh Ahlawat: Jat viron ka Itihasa
  2. ↑ Bhim Singh Dahiya:"Jats: The Ancient Rulers", p.41
  3. ↑ Bhim Singh Dahiya, Jats the Ancient Rulers ( A clan study), 1980, Sterling Publishers New Delhi, p. 282

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