as per me, these clans were once based in rajasthan but moved on and re immigrated to rajasthan
Modern day Rajasthan or even the medieval Rajputana is too small a region.
One can not just assume that Yaudheyas and malavas and arjunayanas who shattered a kingdom of kushanas ( which extended from varanasi to khotan ) were eliminated and new rajput clans emerged.
The medieval clans have come out of old clans like the ones you named. How? Because they follow the same practices, they hold the same clan states of monarchy with the same weight the old clans had in choosing a leader/king/chieftain.
And now that you've named these old clans, have you looked up the regions of their activity?
It spans from all the way up Himachal Pradesh (Udumbara, Kuluta, Trigarta clans) down to Gujarat-MP (Malavs, Bharasivas).
In fact without this wall of warrior clans running parallely southwest to the Indus, Kannauj in Gangetic plains couldn't have become an Imperial Capital of North India.
[*]Yavans are known to be alien to India, and we have an Indian surname called Chauhan or Chavan.
From Mahabharat to Ashokan edicts, there are plenty of references to Yavanas and many explicitly count them as part of India, in the northwest border provinces.
From Vishnupuran, they are identified as relegated Kshatriyas who had left the country eventually.
Book 4, Chapter 3, verses 42 to 49 :
Accordingly when he became a man he put nearly the whole of the Haihayas to death, and would have also destroyed the Åšakas,
the Yavanas, Kámbojas, Páradas, and Pahnavas 15, but that they applied to VaÅ›ishtÌha, the family priest of Sagara, for protection. VaÅ›ishtÌha regarding them as annihilated (or deprived of power), though living, thus spake to Sagara: "Enough, enough, my son, pursue no farther these objects of your wrath, whom you may look upon as no more. In order to fulfil your vow I have separated them from affinity to the regenerate tribes, and from the duties of their castes." Sagara, in compliance with the injunctions of his spiritual guide, contented himself therefore with imposing upon the vanquished nations peculiar distinguishing marks.
He made the Yavanas 16 shave their heads entirely; the Śakas he compelled to shave (the upper) half of their heads; the Páradas wore their hair long; and the Pahnavas let their beards grow, in obedience to his commands 17.
Them also, and other Kshatriya races, he deprived of the established usages of oblations to fire and the study of the Vedas; and thus separated from religious rites, and abandoned by the Brahmans, these different tribes became Mlechchhas. Sagara, after the recovery of his kingdom, reigned over the seven-zoned earth with undisputed dominion
Book 2, Chapter 3, verse 8 :
At the eastern end dwell the Kiratas and the western end
the Yavanas.
Manusmriti mentions Yavans in the same light at Chapter 10 verse 43 and 44 :
43. But in consequence of the omission of the sacred rites, and of their not consulting Brahman's, the following tribes of Kshatriya have gradually sunk in this world to the condition of Sudras;
44. (Viz.) the Paun-drakas, the Kodas, the Dravida, the Kambogas,
the Yavanas, the Sakas, the Paradas, the Pahlavas, the Kinas, the Kiratas, and the Daradas.
In the Markandeya Purana's 'Bharata Varnana Prakarana' the frontiers of Bharata are mentioned as follows:
"The Kirata regions in the East,
the Yavana regions in the northwest, the Malaya hills in the south, and the Himalayas in the north"
There are many more such references.
Coming to the indicated resemblance between Yavan and Chauhan/Chavan.
According to 'PrithviRaj Vijaya' and 'Hammir Mahakavya' the progenitor of the clan is the King named 'Chahaman', followed by Vasudev and SamantRaj. Chauhans trace their first major settlement at Sambhar in Rajasthan.
There is a strong possibility that some Rajputs might have actually descended from foreigners.
Interesting. What basis or evidence might lead that to anywhere from mere speculation?
[*]The fire ritual performed by Agasthya on Mt. Abu might have something to do with it. Folklore says, Rajputs emerged from within the fire, but i don't believe that. However, could it be that the fire was a massive military signal atop a mountain intended for the warrior tribes in the distant lands, to come in the defense of Brahmins?
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The folklore legend of Agnikula is a late prop up to glorify certain Rajput clans (including Chauhans), and has been used by European scholars to air their wild theories about foreign descent etc.
PrithviRaj Vijaya written by Jayanaka the courtesan of PrithviRaj Chauhan, clearly mentions that the Chauhans were Suryavanshis.
So does the 'Kanhade Prabandh and 'Vansha Bhaskar'.
That's what we were taught.
Our history book took a middle approach, and said some Rajputs originated locally, while some came from outside.
Of course, if we look at the various Rajputs, we will see there is a wide variation in the structure of nose, eyes, cheek bones, eyebrows, etc..
I do not believe that all Rajputs originate form the same region (such as, Rajasthan).
The Rajputs we see today have been inter marrying among each other in the entire north India. Need not mention the variation in geography and physical appearance.
Secondly, the source base of medieval Rajputs genetic stock is not one narrow clan of a single region.
It consists of nearly a dozen old clans spread between Himachal and Gujarat-MP. (As given in top of the post)
Regards,
Virendra