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Dynasties belonging to this clan ruled a number of kingdoms and Princely State s in Rajasthan and neighboring states before India's independence. The largest and oldest among these was Jodhpur ( Marwar ); the Maharaja Of Jodhpur is regarded as the head of the extended Rathore clan of Hindu Rajputs. EARLY HISTORY It is surmised that the Rathores were originally feudatories of the Ujjain i-based Gurjara- Pratihara dynasty, and may perhaps have been domiciled in the vicinity of Kannauj in the heyday of that dynasty. Pratihara-ruled Kannauj was sacked by Mahmud Of Ghazni in 1019 CE, which ushered in a chaotic period for that area. A family known to us as the " Gahadvala " dynasty gained control of Kannauj and ruled for nearly a century; their best-known dynast was Jaichand , their last king. The Gahadvalas were displaced from Kannauj by the invasion, in 1194 CE, of Muhammad Of Ghor . It is said that a Sheoji, a surviving grandson of Jaichand, made his way into the western desert with a group of faithful followers, finally settling in the town of Pali in Marwar , which was ruled by another branch of the Pratiharas. Sheoji is regarded as the patriarch of the entire Rathore clan and all Rathores trace their patrilineage back to him. MARWAR AND BEYOND The Rathores gradually spread across Marwar, forming a brotherhood of landowners and village chieftains, loosely bound to each other by ties of clan and caste. An epoch in the history both of Marwar and of the Rathores was marked by Rao Jodha , a warrior who founded a kingdom that grew to encompass all of Marwar. He also founded the city of Jodhpur in 1459 , and moved his capital thither from Mandore . One of his sons, Rao Bika, established the town of Bikaner in 1488 , in the Jangladesh region lying to the north of Marwar; that town was to become the seat of a second major Rathore kingdom. The various cadet branches of the Rathore clan gradually spread to encompass all of Marwar and later sallied abroad to found states in Central India and Gujarat . At the time of India's independence in 1947, the Princely States ruled by various branches of the Rathore clan included:
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