Chaura

For village see - Chaura Kawardha

Chaura (चौरा) is a Jat gotra.

Jat Gotras Namesake

• Chaura (चौरा) (Jat clan) → Chauradongri (चौरा डोंगरी) is a village in Tamia tahsil in Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh.

• Chaura (चौरा) (Jat clan) → Chauragarh (चौरागढ़) is site of Chhota Mahadeo Shiva temple in Pachmarhi Hill station situated in the Satpura Ranges. It is in Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh state of central India.

• Chaura (चौरा) (Jat clan) → Chauragarh (चौरागढ़) is a village and site of a fort in Gadarwara tahsil of Narsinghpur district in Madhya Pradesh.

• चौरा (जाट गोत्र - चौरा) : चौरा नाम का गाँव झारखंड के सराइकेला खरसावाँ जिले की गम्हरिया विकास-खंड में है

• Chaura (चौरा) (Jat clan) → Chauraiya (चौरईया) is a village in Hata tahsil in Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh. It is located on Barana River (बराना नदी) near north-west border of Damoh district adjoining Chhatarpur District. It is beautiful natural spot. Author (Laxman Burdak) visited it on 13.03.1991,11.11.1991.

History

Ram Sarup Joon writes that...about 70 Jat Gotras joined the Gujar force and started calling themselves Gujars. Chaura is one of them.

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Alexander Cunningham writes About a century after their expulsion from Balabhi the representative of the Balabhis, named Bappa or Vappaka, founded a new kingdom at Chitor, and his son Guhila, or Guhaditya, gave to his tribe the new

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[p.319]: name of Guhilawat, or Gahilot, by which thcy are still known.

About the same time a chief of the Chaura tribe, named Ban Raja, or the " Jangal Lord," founded a city on the bank of the Saraswati, about seventy miles to the south-west of Mount Abu, called Analwara Pattan, which soon became the most famous place in Western India. Somewhat earlier, or about A.D. 720, Krishna, the Pahlava prince of the peninsula, built the fort of Elapura, the beauty of which, according to the inscription, astonished the immortals. In it he established an image of Siva adorned with the crescent.

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