Awana (clan) explained

Caste Name:	Awana, Awan
Ethnicity:	Gurjar

Awana^[1] ^[2] ^[3] also known as Awan^[4] is a clan of the Gurjar ethnic community of India and Pakistan.^[5]

Distributions

They are inhabitant in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Hazara, Punjab, Pakistan Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, India.

In 1911 Horace Arthur Rose noted about Awana Gujjars of Gujrat district as;

Henry Adolphus Byden Rattigan (1895) A Digest of the Cases Reported in the Punjab Record:With an Index of the Names of the Cases · Volumes 28-30 Civil and Military Gazette Press. p.80
K. S. Singh, Swaran Singh, V. Bhalla (1997) Chandigarh Chandigarh, India, culture, society. p.66 "The community has a number of clans. The principal clans are Barsoi, Dhanga, Chamayan, Chhokar, Khatana, Rawal, Khare, Seradra, Pilwara, Awana, Kumbar, Madi, Chechi, Koli, Chadri, Chanda, Mutan, Nikari, Rawat, Rajana, Budana."
A. H. Bingley, Krishna Prakash Bahadur (1978) History, Caste & Culture of Jāts and Gūjars Ess Ess Publications. p.44

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