Toor/Tur (तूर) or Toora/Tura (तुरो) is a gotra found amongst Jats and Rajputs in Punjab and Haryana. Dilip Singh Ahlawat has mention it as one of the ruling Jat clans in Central Asia.[1] Toor is a Chandravanshi Rajput clan.[2]
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The Pehlavi Bundahesh, derives the Tur/Tour/Turk, as follows:
Fredun → Tour/Tur → Jaeshm → Peshang → Frasiao
As per Masoudi this person Tur or Tour was the ancestor of all the Turks, and there is no evidence to contradict this view. It is significant that this clan of [[Tur]a. Mohan Singh Tur, at present a member of National Parliament, belongs to this clan. It is still existing in IndiIranian sources also say that daughter of the descendants of Fredun, named Baboudukht, was married to Kabad (Kavadh) In 498 AD when he was in exile with the Aksuvans (Kasuans). Noshirwan was born to her. Noshirwan too, married another daughter of the Khakan, and Hormuzd, his successor, was born from her.[3] While we are on this topic let us see the last named descendant of Tur, viz., Frāsiāo. Firdausi gives the name as Afrasiāb and mentions his brother as Karsevaz. He was king of the Turanians, who fought the battle of Balkh, under their general Piran against the Iranian king Kae Khushru. This war ended in a treaty. However, the next Turanian King, Arjasp, fought again and killed not only Lohrasp, son of Kakhushru, but also Zoroaster, the founder of Zoroastrianism.
During the time of Naushervan (531-579 AD), the Sassanid emperor of Iran ( who was himself born of a Jat lady of Tur clan, married by his father, Kavadh, in 498 AD when he was in exile and seeking the help of his Jat relations), we find that their chief, Khakan, at Balkh was in favour of peace with the Iranians.