Rajput: Huna, Hoon

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From The Tribes And Castes Of The Central Provinces Of India

By R. V. Russell

Of The Indian Civil Service

Superintendent Of Ethnography, Central Provinces

Assisted By Rai Bahadur Hira Lal, Extra Assistant Commissioner

Macmillan And Co., Limited, London, 1916.

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Rajput: Huna, Hoon

This clan retains the name and 1 Bildspur District Gazetteer, chap. * The date is too early, as is usual ii., in which a full and interesting in these traditions. Though the account of the Ratanpur kingdom is Ilaihaivansis only founded Ratanpur given by Mr. C. U. Wills, C.S. about A.D. 1050, their own legends 2 Ibidem, p. 49. put it ten centuries earlier. ' Mr. Crooke's Tribes and Castes, 3,rt. riayobans, '* Rajasthan, i. p. 36.

memory of the Hun barbarian hordes, who invaded India at or near the epoch of their incursions into Europe. It is practically extinct ; but in his Western India Colonel Tod records the discovery of a few families of Hunas in Baroda State : " At a small village opposite Ometa I discovered a few huts of Huns, still existing under the ancient name of Hoon, by which they are known to Hindu history.

There are said to be three or four families of them at the village of Trisavi, three kos from Baroda, and although neither feature nor complexion indicate much relation to the Tartar-visaged Hun, we may ascribe the change to climate and admixture of blood, as there is little doubt that they are descended from these invaders, who established a sovereignty on the Indus in the second and sixth centuries of the' Christian era, and became so incorporated with the Rajput population as to obtain a place among the thirty-six royal races of India, together with the Gete, the Kathi, and other tribes of the Sacae from Central Asia, whose descendants still occup)^ the land of the sun-worshipping Saura or Chaura, no doubt one of the same race."