Chotya
Chotya
(Chotia, Chotiya, Chautia, Chautiya, Chautya)
Location : Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan
Country : India, Afghanistan
Chotya (चोट्या) Chotia (चोटिया) Chotiya (चोटिया) Chautia (चौटिया) Chautiya (चौटिया) Chautya (चौट्या) Gotra Jats are found in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Chot (चोट)/Chotiali clan is found in Afghanistan.[1] Chotia are a branch of Chauhan. Mali Jats were supporters of chauhans and worship Shakambhari and Jeenmata godesses like Chauhans. Mali and Chotia have brotherly relations.[2]
Origin
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Gotiya = Cotyora (Pliny.vi.4)
- Chotia = Cotyora (Pliny.vi.4)
- Chotiya (चोटिया) (Jat clan) → Chutiya (चुटिया) is a historical village in Khairlanji tahsil in Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh. It is situated on Chandan River and Wainganga River near the border of Maharashtra.
History
Chotia (चोटिया), one of the clans of the Pachadas (q. v.). They claim to be Chauhan descent from their eponym, Chotia. Most of them are only Hindus.[3]
H.A. Rose[4] writes that In Hissar the true Chauhans are immigrants and may be divided into two branches, the Nimrana* and Sidhmukh or, as they call themselves, Bārā Thāl. The Nimranas who are descendants of Raja Sangāt, a great-grandson of Chahir Deo, brother of Pirthi Raj, are sub-divided into two clans, Rāth and Bāgauta, both of which came from Gurgaon, the former tracing their origin to Jātsāna. The name Bagauta would appear to be connected with Bighota.†
The Bārā Thāl had a group of 12 villages near Sidhmukh in Bikaner, close to a famous shrine of Guga.
The Sohu and Chotia Pachadas claim Chauhan descent.
Chotiya is the 430,675th most common surname at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 9,109,432 people. The surname is mostly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Chotiya live; 54 percent live in South Asia and 54 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 575,894th most frequently occurring first name world-wide It is held by 241 people.
The surname Chotiya is most commonly used in India, where it is borne by 432 people, or 1 in 1,775,614. In India it is mostly concentrated in: Rajasthan, where 55 percent live, Maharashtra, where 26 percent live and Telangana, where 7 percent live. Beside India this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Thailand, where 46 percent live and The United States, where 0 percent live.
Villages founded by Chotiya clan
- Dheerdesar Chotiyan ( धीरदेसर चोटियान) - Village in Dungargarh tahsil of Bikaner district in Rajasthan.
- Chachiyawas((चांचियावास))- Village in Degana tehsil of Nagaur district in Rajasthan.
Sub divisions of Chauhan
Bhim Singh Dahiya[5] provides us list of Jat clans who were supporters of the Chauhan when they gained political ascendancy. The Chotia clan supported the ascendant clan Chauhan and become part of a political confederacy.[6]
Distribution in Gujarat
Villages in Banas Kantha district
Distribution in Madhya Pradesh
Villages in Harda district
Bhairopur, Bhunnas, Sonkhedi, Uda Harda,
Villages in Dhar district
Jabada, Badnawar, Bakhatgarh[7] Derkha Urf Bharatgarh,
Villages in Ratlam district
Villages in Ratlam with population of this gotra are:
Banjali 3, Barbodana 1, Bardiya Goyal 1, Bhansa Dabar 1, Bodina 1, Dodiana 5, Kalmoda 2, Kuajhagar, Kunwajhagar 19, Malakheda 1, Peer Ingoliya 2, Raoti 1, Sarsi Ratlam 12,
Villages in Khargone district
Villages in Indore district
Pardeshipura (a locality in Indore city)
Villages in Dewas district
Distribution in Rajasthan
Villages in Nagaur district
Badoo, Bhadwa Parbatsar, Banwarla, Chachiyawas, Charanwas Degana, Jasnagar Merta, Degana Ganw, Deh, Dholiya, Dugor Achla, Gogelao, Gwaloo, Gular, Indas, Jawla Parbatsar, Joshiyad, Jhunjharpura (15), Khajwana, Ledi, Meharana, Nathawara, Nathawari, Palri Jodha, Sabalpur Makrana,
Villages in Bikaner district
Dheerdesar Chotiyan, Nakodesar, Raner (t.Chhatargarh),
Villages in Ajmer district
Villages in Ganganagar district
Villages in Tonk district
Villages in Jaipur district
Beesaloo (1), Madhopura Dudu, Surajpura (1),
Villages in Churu District
Villages in Sikar District
Villages in Barmer district
Villages in Jodhpur district
Villages in Pali district
Villages in Hanumangarh district
Villages in Bhilwara district
Notable persons
- Motiram Choudhary Chotiya - Manager of tea garden in Darjeeling from village Chachiyawas in Nagaur district Rajasthan
- Prabhu Ram Chotiya - Manager SBBJ from village Dheerdesar Chotiyan in Churu district Rajasthan.
- Satendra Chotiya - RJS (2010) from village Dheerdesar Chotiyan in Churu district Rajasthan[8]
- Shahid Naik Prabhu Ram Chotia - From Indas, Nagaur, Rajasthan is Martyr of Kargil war on 13 June 1999, Unit-18 Grenadiers.
- चौ. कृष्ण कुमार चोटिया - जिला प्रमुख हनुमानगढ़ (राजस्थान)
- Vikas chotiya- Indian Railway services (2012), from village Nahranwali ,Anoopgarh,sriganganagr, Rajasthan
- Rakesh Kumar Chotiya -
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- Rakesh Kumar Chotiya (02.06.1982 - 24.1.2018), from village Dheerdesar Chotiyan, Dungargarh, Bikaner, Rajasthan became martyr on 24.1.2018 fighting with terrorists in Arunachal Pradesh, India.
Gallery of Chotia people
External Links
References
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, The Oriental University Institute, Woking, 1891, p.134,137,185,186
- ↑ Raghunath Bhakhar: 'Rulyana Mali' (Jhankata Ateet), Bhaskar Prakashan Sikar, 2022. ISBN: 978-93-5607-079-0, p.70
- ↑ A glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province By H.A. Rose Vol II/C, p.156, 182
- ↑ A glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province By H.A. Rose Vol II/B , p.156
- ↑ Jats the Ancient Rulers (A clan study)/Appendices/Appendix I,p.316-17
- ↑ A glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province By H.A. Rose Vol II/J,p.375-76
- ↑ User:Sk56
- ↑ Jat Samaj, April 2010, p. 34
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