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Barnwals were one of the most prominent Trading communities of Medieval North India having a lineage similar to the Agarwals, who are more 'visible'. This community lost most of its glory during the continuous Islamic attacks on the Hindu India during 1100AD. Barnwal Community was started by Raja Ahibarn , whose ancestors had moved to a place called Ahar in North India . Ahar is the same place where the famous ‘Khandan Van’ of Mahabharata period is located. Some 400 years after Mahabharata , King Ahibarn spread his reach and renamed the Ahar kingdom on his own name as Barn-sahar and called all people living under his kingship as Barnwals. Barn-sahar is today’s Bulendsahar of Western Uttar Pradesh now part of Delhi NCR. King Ahibarn was a & Barnwal. Because they are 'Vanshaj' of Kings, due to this reason Barnwals & Agrawals though part of the Vaish caste sometimes consider themselves as 'separate' castes and donot like being generalised as Bania s. During 1192AD when Mohammad Gori attacked India, his Senapati (Military commander) Qutubbudin surrounded Fort Barn and with the help of traitors was able to kill King Chandrasen Dor & in the process take control of the Barn kingdom. He ordered the inhabitant of Barn-sahar to either adopt Islam or die. Most of the people were brutally killed and their head hanged on the fort minars. After the fall of Barn-sahar the community lost the leadership and direction & in the process scattered to different parts of India, mostly to the Gangetic plains of India and started living under the various family names of Lala, Modi, Goyal, Bakshi, Hakim, Choudhary, Patwari, Bajaj, Parsariya, Simriya, Nagar. At present the Barnwal population is around half a million. They are mostly spread in Uttar Pradesh , Bihar , Jharkhand & West Bengal along with a sprinkled presence in Rajasthan , MP & Maharastra . Some from the community who accepted Islam , their descendant are known as Barni Muslims . Barnwals (Baranwals) have also been marrying into other Merchant communities like Agrawal & Jain families. |
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