Sikarwar
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Sikarwar (सिकरवार) Sikarvar(सिकरवार) Sagarwar (सगरवार) Sakarwar सकरवार) is a gotra of Jats found in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh in India. Dilip Singh Ahlawat has mention it as one of the ruling Jat clans in Central Asia. [1] This gotra originated from place called Sikari in Uttar Pradesh. [2] They are called Sakariya in Gujarat.
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History
They are the same as Sakaravakas of the Puranas. In Mathura, they call themselves Sagarvar which is the same. They are called Sacaravcae by the Greeks and this name is the same as the Puranic name. In about 100 B.C. the Sakarwars began to play an important part in the politics of Persia. Their part in the death of Phraates II and Artban was significant, and they Practically appointed Sinatroces as king of Persia in 77 B.C. In 27 / 26 B.C. when Phraates IV was contending with his adversary, Tiridates, The role of Sikarwars was decisive. [3] From A. Gardiner’s book, “The Coins of Greeks and Scythian Kings of Bactria and India in the British Museum”, Plate XXXIV , 8 we know that the names of two kings of Sikarwar clan were Artader and his son Hyrcodes. They were ruling at Sogdiana and Bactriana in the second half of the first century B.C. As per Ghirshman, the Kushana King Heraus (of Her clan) sat on their throne in about 20 B.C. This was the period of the rise of Kaswan Jats and their ally, the Kangs (Kangnu or Kang-kiu of the Chinese and kankas of the Indian works) occupied Bukhara. Their coins have been found at Tali_Bargu, near Samarkand. [4] R. Ghirshman identified them with the Sacaravae of the Greek writers and the Sakarav of Sakara of the coins. O.G. Von wesendonk has rightly identified them with the Sakarvaka of the Puranas. [5] According to J. Marquart , they were the people meant in the inscription of Darius and styled as Saka-Hauma-Varka [6] but although both the Sakarvars and the Virks were Jats (Sakas), it is the latter people who are named by Darius. Of course the ruling clan of Virks had the Sikarvars and also other clans under them as partners at that time, but that was in the sixth century B.C. Ultimately, their kingdom was annexed by Kanishka into the Kaswan empire, as the Kaaba Zarthustra inscription of Shahpuhr I, shows that Sogdiana, along with the cities of Bukhara , Samarkand, Tashkand, ect. were inside the empire . [7] So the Sikarvar came to India in the first century A.D. or earlier. Perhaps they are the Sagartians of Herodotus and of the Behistna inscription. [8]
They were the rulers of Sikari. Sikarwars founded the historical place Sikari, near Agra. They were the rulers of 12 villages in Aligarh district. Kunwar Hukam Singh of Angai (Mathura) has been a famous person from Sikarwar gotra. Kunwar Hukam Singh was a close friend of Raja Mahendra Pratap. Sikarwar is also a clan of Suryavanshi Rajputs of first Century A.D. [9]
Distribution in Uttar Pradesh
Sikarwar Khap has 12 villages in Mathura district and 28 villages in Agra district. [10]
Villages in Mathura district
Angai, Dhana Teja, Garhsauli Hathakauli Kiloni GHAROTHA
Villages in Agra district
Distribution in Rajasthan
Locations in Jaipur city
Bajaj Nagar, Barkat Nagar,
Villages in Bharatpur district
Nadbai, Kabai,
Notable persons from this gotra
- Kunwar Hukam Singh of Angai
- Mrs Mamta Sikarwar - IPS Haryana
Reference
- ↑ Dilip Singh Ahlawat: Jat viron ka Itihasa
- ↑ Dr Mahendra Singh Arya, Dharmpal Singh Dudee, Kishan Singh Faujdar & Vijendra Singh Narwar: Ādhunik Jat Itihasa (The modern history of Jats), Agra 1998, p. 282
- ↑ Albert Hermann, Sacaraucae in Pauly......, Vol I, pp. 1161-1620
- ↑ J.De Morgan op. city . pp. 536-544
- ↑ Kusan, Chromites and Hephthalites 1933, p 337
- ↑ op. cit., p. 43
- ↑ See American Journal of Semetic Languages and Literature 1940 p. 354
- ↑ Bhim Singh Dahiya, Jats the Ancient Rulers, 1980, p. 271-272
- ↑ Kishori Lal Faujdar: Uttar Pradesh ke Madhyakalin Jatvans avam Rajya, Jat Samaj, Agra, April 1999.
- ↑ Jat Bandhu, Agra, April 1991
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