A Historical Repository of the Hunnic Migration to Hind
Tracing a forgotten Kshatriya line from the Altai steppe to the Shivalik foothills — through inscriptions, coins, chronicles, and DNA.
Migration Path — Interactive Map
Click the map below to open the live interactive version — pan, zoom, click pins for caption and date, switch basemap layer (street / satellite / terrain).
Open the live interactive map →A live OpenStreetMap-based map with all 16 cities pinned and the migration paths colour-coded by region (Turkic, Khorasan, Iran, main, Cholistan), plus the four historical-region polygons. Entire Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh and Aksai Chin shown as Indian territory.
The Thesis
The Varaha Rajputs of Ambota trace their roots to the Altai steppe, kin to (but distinct from) the Xiongnu of Mongolia. From the Altai their lineage carried west across Central Asia as the Hephthalites and the House of Waraz, south across the Hindu Kush as the Alkhan, and into India as the Turk Shahi and Hindu Shahi dynasties — guardians of Bharat’s north-western frontier for more than three hundred years.
Mainstream historiography has effectively erased this clan. This site assembles the surviving evidence — Persian and Chinese chronicles, epigraphy, numismatics, the Schøyen Copper Scroll, and Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b (L275) — and lets the record speak for itself.
The Eight Eras
Each pillar page traces one chapter of the journey, with its rulers, inscriptions, and primary sources.
The high pastures of the Altai mountains — kin to the Xiongnu of Mongolia, but a parallel cousin lineage. Slab-grave culture, the steppe horse, and the boar that became the family totem.
Two parallel survivals after 1026 CE: a Cholistan branch — Uchchha & Derawar — held by the Varhas through the 18th century (per Muhnot Nainsi's Khyat), and a Punjab branch — Bhatinda under Raja Banni Pal → Sirhind → the Shivalik hills, ending in the retreat of surviving Varahas to Ambota, district Una, Himachal Pradesh.
The Varaha tribe preserved its cultural heritage, ultimately settling in Himachal Pradesh, where their maternal grandfather granted them five villages. This narrative illustrates the Varah’s adaptability and highlights their significant contributions to the region’s history.
— from the Conclusion, Varaha — Hunnic Migration to Hind
