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The '''Banaut'''/Bandawat '''(Bundela)''' are a branch of the [[Bundela]] [[Rajput]] found in the Indian states of [[Bihar]], [[Jharkhand]] and [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]].<ref>https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/78297/1/MPRA_paper_78297.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref> They trace their origin from Bundelkhand, Orchha Bundelkhand and Jhansi.<br />
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== History and origin ==<br />
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The Banaut are found mainly in north-eastern [[Bihar]]. They have come originally from [[Orchha|Orcha]] in [[Bundelkhand]]. The community are said to have left Orcha to escape the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]]s..The Banaut are distributed mainly in ,chouparan , [[Munger district|Munger]], [[Bhagalpur district|Bhagalpur]], [[Purnia district|Purnia]], [[Saharsa district|Saharsa]], [[Katihar district|Katihar]] and [[Araria district|Arariya]]. Rajput from [[Hazaribagh district|Hazaribagh]] and Chatra in [[Jharkhand]] also from the same clan of Rajput.<ref name="autogenerated100">People of India Bihar Volume XVI Part One edited by S Gopal & Hetukar Jha pages 100 to 103 Seagull Books</ref><br />
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==Present circumstances==<br />
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The Banaut speak [[Angika]] and most of them understand [[Hindi]]. They have their particular village deities such as [[Hanuman]]ji, [[Rama|Ram-]][[Sita|Janaki]] and [[Radha Krishna|Radhakrishna]].<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Babu Saheb]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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