The Suleria (or Sulehria, Sulahria, Salaria, Salehria, Suleri, Sulehri) are a clan of Chandravanshi Rajputs. The Sikh and Hindu Sulehria live in India. The Muslim Sulehria are considered a clan of Muslim Rajputs and nearly all live in Pakistan. A part of Muslim Sulehrias live in Jammu & Kashmir, on both sides the border.
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The history of the Suleria is well documented in the Census Report of the Punjab 1883 by Denzil Ibbetson, and the Census report of the Punjab 1892, by H.A. Rose.
... a tribe of Rajputs who trace their descent from one Raja Saigal or Shal of fabulous antiquity, and from his descendant Chandra Gupta. They say that their eponymous ancestor came from Deccan in the time of Sultan Mamdah as commander of a force sent to suppress the insurrection of Shuja* (*Shaikha is the usual form of his name) and settled in Sialkot; and that his descendants turned Muslim in the time of Bahlol Lodi. They are for the most part Muhammadans, but still employ Brahmans. As a rule they do not marry within the tribe.[1]
The Sulehrias, as they came to be known, settled around Sialkot during Bahlul Lodi's rule and then intermarried amongst the various Jatt and Rajput tribes. According to Najmuttawarikh by Munshi Natiq, 25 Rajas of Sulehria clan ruled Sultanate of Punjab (Lahore) for a long time. Some of them were Maha Raja Kedar, Singal, Hem Aria, Ajayse. Jaypal, and Anandpal. According to Tarekh e Jalila, written by Ghulam Dastgir Nami, Raja Sahn Pal Suleria and his descendants chose Islam due to the preachings of Hazrat Abdul Jalil Chorh Bandgi Qureshi in the reign of Bahlol Lodhi, while his other brother Raja Jeet Pal Sulehria and his descendants remain of Hindu religion.
Sulehris were mainly followers of the Islam, however there were some voluntary conversions to the Sikh faith due to the rise of Sikhism in the Punjab region and due to the Sulehris settling and mixing with the people of Punjab for so many generations. There are many well educated successful Sulehris in India today, they go by the name Salaria and identify strongly from their Rajput heritage. Many Sikh Sulehris successfully work in the fields of medicine, Army and commerce.
Today Sulehrias are mostly found around the northern part of the Indian Sub-Continent.
In Pakistan, they inhabit a long chain of border villages in Sialkot, Shakargarh and Narowal, Gujranwala districts along the working boundary between Pakistan and the province of Jammu (Indian Administered Jammu-Kashmir). There is a village called "Bini Sulehrian" in Sailkot district of Pakistan only a few miles from Indian border where you will find Rajput Sulehri living for generations
There is also a strong affluent population of Sulehris (who are adherents of the Islamic faith) in Pakistani Administered Kashmir in Kotli, Rawala kot, Poonch, Bagh and Muzaffarabad Districts. Some families are settled in district Jhelum.