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'''Baranwal''' (also spelled '''Barnwal''', '''Burnwal''', '''Varnwal''', '''Warnwal''' or '''Barnawal''') is a community of India that claims [[Suryavansha|Suryavanshi]] descent.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Crooke|first1=William|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tCc-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA16|title=An Ethnographical Hand-book for the N.-W. Provinces and Oudh|publisher=North-Western Provinces and Oudh Government Pres|year=1890|page=16}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=F. S. Growse |title=The town of Bulandshahr |journal=Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal |volume=LII |issue=1 |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bengal |location=Calcutta |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HTgzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA275 |year=1883 |page=275 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Babb|first1=Lawrence A|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=74tUY0le33UC&pg=PA192|title=Alchemies of Violence: Myths of Identity and the Life of Trade in Western India|publisher=Sage|year=2004|isbn=978-0-7619-3223-9}}</ref><br />
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==Legend==<br />
The Baranwal community claim to be descended from King [[Ahibaran]], a [[Suryavansha|Suryavanshi]] [[Kshatriya]], who is assumed to be the great-grandson of the legendary king [[Agrasen]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Baynes|first1=Thomas Spencer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j9B6MKdFUpwC&pg=PA515|title=The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature|publisher=C. Scribner's sons|year=1878|isbn=|volume=4|location=|page=515}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ccg7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA233|title=The Missionary Chronicle: Containing the Proceedings of the Board of Foreign Missions and of the Board of Domestic Missions of the Presbyterian Church: and a General View of Other Benevolent Operations.|year=1849|volume=17|page=233}}</ref><ref name="Folklore"/><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Mittal|first1=J. P.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rrh4tY3v2A4C&pg=PA675|title=History of ancient India|year=1991|page=675|isbn=9788126906161}}</ref> At present, they mostly reside in the regions of [[Etawah]], [[Azamgarh]], [[Gorakhpur]] and [[Ghazipur]].<ref name="Folklore">{{cite book|author1=Asian Folklore Institute|author2=Society for Asian Folklore|title=Asian Folklore Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ENcfAQAAMAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Asian Folklore Institute}}{{Page needed|date=December 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Gupta |first1=C. Dwarakanath |title=Socio-cultural History of an Indian Caste |publisher=Mittal Publications |isbn=978-81-7099-726-9 |page=16 |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Socio_cultural_History_of_an_Indian_Cast/OJlpWwZkRDAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=baranwal+caste+bania&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=About District {{!}} District Bulandshahr, Government of Uttar Pradesh {{!}} India|url=https://bulandshahar.nic.in/about-district/|website=bulandshahar.nic.in|url-status=live}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Social groups of Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Social groups of Haryana]]<br />
[[Category:Social groups of Rajasthan]]<br />
[[Category:Social groups of Bihar]]<br />
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