History of Gujjar Migration

[AP Singh]

Recently I read a news about Nomad Gujjar Migartion which is pasted below. I was curious to know when this tradition of Gujjar migration started. To the best of my knowledge and analysis this tradition goes back to the Great Era of Gusura (Gujjar) Kushan ( Kasana) Empire.

As is well known that Gujjars during the days of Great Kaniska had three capitals of their Empire.
1. Peshawar ( Main Capital)
2. Mathura ( Winter capital)
3. Samarkand (Located in present day uzbekistan was the summer capital).

The Gujjar Kasana Emperors used to shift their capitals every year depending upon the seasons and the same tradition of their Great ancestors is being followed by the Nomad Gujjar even today.

See the following news:




Nomads start early migration

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GK NEWS NETWORK



Jammu, Mar 28: The Gujjar and Bakerwal tribes have started their bi-annual seasonal migrations towards upper reaches of Shivalik, Pirpanchal and Trikuta hills of Himalaya one month ahead of their routine schedule, due to unusual rise in daily temperature.
“These nomadic tribes have pre-poned their seasonal migration after 29-years due to abnormal weather conditions as dry March has caused maximum temperature to rise above normal level by eight to 12 degrees,” officials said.
A hand out of Tribal Research and Cultural Foundation, an organization working for Gujjars, said in normal circumstances the nomadic Gujjars and Bakerwals who reside in plains during winters starts their seasonal migration towards Himalayas around or after third week of April every year. However, this year due to unusual increase in temperature they were compelled to prepone their onward journey by one month.
According to Dr Javaid Rahi, Secretary of the Foundation, this natural pre-ponement of seasonal nomadic migrations would badly hit the economy of these tribes and their social set-up.
“Nomads will have to face brunt of heat during migration process and will also have to fight against acute shortage of fodder in upper areas,” he added.
According to oral history of tribal Gujjars, the nomads had to face the similar weather conditions way back in 1979 when they had preponed upper migration by one month.

[AP Singh]

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AP Singh

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[Ashok Harsana]

Beslan is a large city in Ossetia (A Russian province). It is surrounded by Georgia and Chechenia.

Ossetians are a indo-europian tribe and connect themselves to Iran. They claim that They migrated from iran and hence called themselves as Iron.
Now please note that Gujran means an area with numerous Gujjar population, similarly Beslan implies to an area with huge population of Beslas.

Is this name a mere coincidence? But the location is surrounded with the places related to Gujars' origin.

This area (Caucasus) always attracts me because it is said to be the origin of Gujars. Bahr-e-khizar (capsian Sea) is nearby, Iran, Georgia, Turkey, Ajaria, Ab-Khazria are the other nearby places. If we start reading the names of the cities on the map of this area then we will realise how important this area is in context of Gujar history.

The chechen leader Shyamil basayev was a Muslim Gujar. But as far as we know that Basoya subclan is comparatively small and is present in delhi only. Same is the case with baisla clan. Then why do we have these names like besla, Basayev, Bargat, Kasanov, khattan, Chavchavda, Gurse etc. in this area?



keep researching

[AP Singh]

Even Uighurs are the close cousins of Gujjars as Uighur is pronunciated as Whe-Gurj. Many of the Gujjars kingdoms were located in this region during Gujjar Kushan Empire. Present day Karhana ( Kroraina),Khalchyan ( Kalsyan) Gotras found among Gujjars today were having their capitals located here is proved by the Archaeological findings by Sir Aurel Stein at these places.

The places of imporatnces to Gujjar History are Kyrghisatan, Tajikistan, Ujbekistan and many other places located on Silk Road, where Gujjars used to collect the taxes on behalf of Gujjar Kushan Emperors.

[Ashok Harsana]

Very right Uyghur (yu-gur) people are certainly close to Gujars. They belong to the Turkish Gokturks. In fact all mid Asian tribes are connected to the Gujjars( or vice versa), be it Turks, Sycthians, Juanjuans, Rourans, Huns, Hans, Uyghurs, Teiles etc.

[Ashok Harsana]

Now read about Khotan kingdom (which is called Yutian or Yuchian in chinese and hotan by others).

See the article below:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khotan

it says:

Recent DNA testing on the mummies has shown that the area's population clustered with Central Asians and Indians rather than East Asians


and

Khotan's indigenous dynasty (all of whose royal names are Indian in origin)

Khotanese is a form of the Saka language once spoken in the Kingdom of Khotan. The language is preserved in the texts among the Dunhuang manuscripts, written in a script derived from the Brahmi.

Please note that brahmi lipi is purely of Indian origin and its very close to Devanagari.


There is no doubt that Khotan kingdom was actually the Khatana section of Gujjar tribe.

[Ashok Harsana]

Please see the full size Image

See the Link below:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit
The earliest known inscriptions in Sanskrit date to the 1st century BCE.[30] They are in the Brahmi script,

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