Parmar (clan)
Parmar, also known as Panwar, Pawar, Powar or Bhoyar [1] is a Rajput clan[2] found in Northern and Central India, especially in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Chattisgarh, Sindh and North Maharashtra .
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- ^ https://books.google.co.in/books?id=OmBjoAFMfjoC&pg=PA355&dq=bhoyar+pawar&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwje7Ya-hL6BAxWLfd4KHRYABCIQ6AF6BAgMEAM#v=onepage&q=bhoyar%20pawar&f=false
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- Maya Unnithan-Kumar (1997). Identity, Gender, and Poverty: New Perspectives on Caste and Tribe in Rajasthan. Berghahn Books. p. 135. ISBN 978-1-57181-918-5. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
- Singh, Virbhadra (1994). The Rajputs of Saurashtra. Popular Prakashan. p. 44. ISBN 9788171545469.
- Nandini Chatterjee (2020). Land and Law in Mughal India: A Family of Landlords across Three Indian Empires. Cambridge University Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-1-108-48603-3.
One such Rajput dynasty was that of the Paramaras of Malwa
- Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya (2006). Studying Early India: Archaeology, Texts and Historical Issues. Anthem. p. 116. ISBN 978-1-84331-132-4.
The period between the seventh and the twelfth century witnessed gradual rise of a number of new royal-lineages in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, which came to constitute a social-political category known as 'Rajput'. Some of the major lineages were the Pratiharas of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and adjacent areas, the Guhilas and Chahamanas of Rajasthan, the Caulukyas or Solankis of Gujarat and Rajasthan and the Paramaras of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
- David Ludden (2013). India and South Asia: A Short History. Oneworld Publications. pp. 88–. ISBN 978-1-78074-108-6.
By contrast in Rajasthan a single warrior group evolved called Rajput (from Rajaputra-sons of kings): they rarely engaged in farming, even to supervise farm labour as farming was literally beneath them, farming was for their peasant subjects. In the ninth century separate clans of Rajputs Cahamanas (Chauhans), Paramaras (Pawars), Guhilas (Sisodias) and Caulukyas were splitting off from sprawling Gurjara Pratihara clans...