Rajput: Solankhi, Solanki, Chalukya

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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: Solankhi, Solanki, Chalukya

This clan was one of the Agnikula or fire-born, and are hence considered to have probably been Gurjaras or Gujars. Their original name is said to have been Chaluka, because they were formed in the palm {chain) of the hand. They were not much known in Rajputana, but were very prominent in the Deccan. Here they were generally called Chalukya, though in northern India the name Solankhi is more common. As early as A.D. 350 Pulakesin I. made himself master of the town 1 Rajasthan i. pp. 39S, 399. The brought pressure on the Rana to condeath of the young princess \v;is mainly sent to it in order to save liis state, the work of Anilr Khan I'indari who VOL. IV 2 II

of Vatapi, the modern Badami in the Bijapur District, and founded a dynasty, which developed into the most powerful kingdom south of the Nerbudda, and lasted for two centuries, when it was overthrown by the Rashtrakutas.^ Pulakesin II. of this Chalukya dynasty successfully resisted an inroad of the great emperor Harsha Vardhana of Kanauj, who aspired to the conquest of the whole of India.

The Rashtrakuta kings governed for two centuries, and in A.D. 973 Taila or Tailapa II., a scion of the old Chalukya stock, restored the family of his ancestors to its former glory, and founded the dynasty known as that of the Chalukyas of Kalyan, which lasted like that which it superseded for nearly two centuries and a quarter, up to about A.D. i 1 90. In the tenth century apparently another branch of the clan migrated from Rajputana into Gujarat and established a new dynasty there, owing to which Gujarat, which had formerly been known as Lata, obtained its present name.^

The principal king of this line was Sidh Raj Solankhi, who is well known to tradition. From these Chalukya or Solankhi rulers the Baghel clan arose, which afterwards migrated to Rewah. The Solankhis are found in the United Provinces, and a small number are returned from the Central Provinces, belonging mainly to Hoshangabad and Nimar.

Rajput Solanki

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Synonyms: Agnibanshi Rajput, Baghela Rajput, Chalukya [West Bengal] Groups/subgroups: Ashi Ghar, Choddosho Ghar, Panchsho Bahanna Ghar, Tero Ghar [West Bengal] Titles: Rajanya, Rana, Singh [West Bengal] Surnames: Bera, Chakraborty, Chandra, Choturdhurin, Das, Deb, Debsingha, Kumar, Maity, Mandal, Senapati, Sinharoy [West Bengal] Exogamous units/clans: Chalukya, Solanki [West Bengal] Gotra: Atri, Bharadwaj, Goutam, Kashyap, Vasisht, Vishwamitra, Vyas [West Bengal]