Sehrawat
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Sehrawat or Sherawat or Sahrawat or Rawat or Rae are the same and gotra of Jats found in Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh in India. Rai, Rao, Rawat and Sahrawat were only titles used by Tanwar sardars which later began to be used as gotras. The Rawat Jats have 800 villages in district Gurgaon and 8 villages in district Aligarh.
The capital of Sahrawats was Mohpalpur near Delhi where a very old house is still called a palace.
12 villages near Mehrauli belong to the Sahrawat Jats. In Haryana they are found in Kair, Dipalpur, Bhadani, Kultana and other villages, and some are found in district Meerut also.
[edit] Natable persons of the clan
- Mallika Sherawat The famous Indian film actress
Ch. Yudhvir Sehrawat, General Secretary to All India Jat Mahasabha, and a social worker, A person fought for reservation in Rajasthan, a notable person.
[edit] Reference
- Ram Swarup Joon: History of the Jats, Rohtak, India (1938, 1967)