Jhala

Saurashtra Rajput dynasty — descended from a southerly Varaha cadet branch

The Jhala Rajputs of Saurashtra (Halar, Dhrangadhra, Wadhwan) are, in Prof. G. S. L. Devra‘s reading (2003), descended from a southerly Varaha cadet branch displaced westward from Sindh in the wake of the Arab conquests and the Ghaznavid wars. The Jhala genealogical tradition, recorded in Jhallesvar Genealogy (Jhala & Jhala 2017), preserves the lineage’s emergence from the parent Makwana line at Macchu-kantha.

Sources

• Jhala & Jhala, Genealogy, Archive, Image: Interpreting Dynastic History in Western India, c.1090–2016 (2017)
• Devra, “Political Wilderness and Social Dismemberment” (2003)
• Mirchandani, “Ancient Sindhu and Sauvira” (1976)