Khichi

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Khichi (खीची) Khich (खीच) Khinchi (खींची) is gotra of Jats found in Rajasthan. ^[1]This gotra originated from ancestral person Khichi, who was king of area with capital at Gagraun (Gagraon, Gāgraon) (गागरौन) in present Jhalawar district in Rajasthan. ^[2] Probably they are same as Khichar clan of Chauhans.

Khich, who belong to the Sind-Sagar Doab, is a variation of Khichi, which is one of the Chauhan clans. Ibbetson wrote that they "are said to have come originally from Ajmer, the old seat of Chauhan power, thence to Delhi, and from Delhi to the Sutlej during the Mughal rule".^[3]

Khilchipur was founded in 1544 by Dewan Ugra Sen, a Khichi Rajput, a section of the great Chauhan clan, who was forced by family dissensions to migrate from the Khichi capital of Gagraun.^[4]

Villages in Jaipur district

Thorya ki Dhani (3),

Khichi town in Pakistan

Khichi is a town in Paistan with geographical location: Jhang, Punjab, Pakistan, Asia. Coordinates: 31° 44' 45" North, 72° 54' 15" East. Sardar Muhammad Khan Khichi is a Candidate Affiliated with Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP).

References

1. ↑ History and study of the Jats
2. ↑ Dr Mahendra Singh Arya, Dharmpal Singh Dudee, Kishan Singh Faujdar & Vijendra Singh Narwar: Ādhunik Jat Itihasa (The modern history of Jats), Agra 1998 p. 235
3. ↑ http://www.shvoong.com/humanities/1681556-chauhan-rajputs-vansh-agnivanshi-by/
4. ↑ http://www.uq.net.au/~zzhsoszy/ips/k/khilchipur.html

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