List of Gurjars
Gurjar are an ethnic group in India, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Alternative spellings include Gurjara, Gujar, Gurjjar, Gujjar and Gojar. Notable people from the community include:
India
Education and Social Reforms
- Masud Choudhary, is the founding Vice Chancellor of Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University in Rajouri and Chief Patron of the Gurjar Desh Charitable Trust, Jammu.[1][2]
Gujari Language and Gurjar Culture
Armed forces
- Kirori Singh Bainsla, a retired officer of the Indian Army and leader of a Gurjar reservation movement in Rajasthan[3]
- Kamal Ram, the second-youngest Indian to receive Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration in the British Empire[4]
Indian independence movement
- Arjun Singh Gurjar, freedom fighter[5]
- Ram Chandra Vikal, freedom fighter, Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh[6]
- Kadam Singh, Raja of Parikshitgarh and Mawana, led Gurjar fight against the British during the Indian Rebellion of 1857[7]
- Ganga Singh Gurjar, freedom fighter from Haryana.[8]
Politics
- Rajesh Pilot, Politician of the Indian National Congress party and represented the Dausa in Lok Sabha[9]
- Govind Singh Gurjar (9 March 1932 – 6 April 2009), Lieutenant Governor of Pondicherry and six-time MLA from Nasirabad (Ajmer)[10]
- Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Former President of India[11][12]
- Nand Lal, Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly[13]
Pakistan
- Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, former President of Pakistan[14]
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References
- "Masud gets unprecedented reception on getting second term". Early Times. 19 February 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- 11 Jan 2011, Daily Excelsior
- "Raje govt, Gujjar leaders agree to hold talks". The Times of India. PTI. 8 June 2008. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- "Kamal Ram 91st birth anniversary: Remembering brave Indian Sepoy and Victoria Cross recipient". India. 17 December 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- Gupta, Jughal Kishore (1991). History of Sirsa Town. Atlantic Publishers. p. 214.
- "Former UP deputy CM Ram Chander Vikal dies". Zee News. 27 June 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- Stokes, Eric (1980). The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India. Cambridge University Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-52129-770-7.
- Kripal Chandra Yadav (1977). The revolt of 1857 in Haryana. Manohar Book Service. p. 146.
- Nair, R. R. (14 February 1998). "BJP seeking to thwart Pilot on non-Gujjar votes". Rediff. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- "Govind Singh Gurjar new Puducherry LG". Hindustan Times. 18 July 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
- Former Presidents President of India website. to: a b c d Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905–1977): Biography RRTC, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
- "Shri Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed - Past President of India". Retrieved 17 May 2016. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, by M. A. Naidu, 1975 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, by Attar Chand. Pub. Homeland, 1975. Janak Raj Jai (2003). "Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed". Presidents of India, 1950–2003. Daya Books. p. 101. ISBN 81-87498-65-X
- "Far and away in nearby Balachaur". The Tribune. 15 November 2016.
- "Former president Fazal Ilahi remembered". Pakistan Today. 2 June 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
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