Janjua

Salt Range Rajput line — descended from the Hindu Shahi cadet branch

The Janjua Rajputs of the Salt Range (modern Pakistan) trace their descent to a cadet branch of the Hindu Shahi dynasty — most likely the line of Trilocanapala’s son Bhimapala or a collateral kinsman. The Janjua genealogical tradition preserves the Hindu Shahi Sahi title, transformed in later Persian usage into Shah.

Sources

• Ibbetson, Glossary of Tribes and Castes of the Punjab (1914)
• Rose, H. A., A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab (1914)
• Abdur Rehman, The Last Two Dynasties of the Shahis (1988)