Sunar

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The Sunar (སུའུ་ནར་ཨར།; Devanagari: सुनार; Sunär), are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group of Nepal, Southern Bhutan and North India.

Swarnkar (alternately, Sunar or Sonar) is a Kshatriya caste in india . They are Suryavanshi and chandravanshi rajputs. Due to their separation in thier gold bussines trade these rajputs came to known as Swarnakar or sunar. The suryavanshi rajputs are the Kannaujia Sunar and they are the descendents of lord shree ram they are rathore rajputs and the Chandravanshi are the maidh Rajputs they are descendents of samrat ajmeedh ji maharaj.

Etymology

The term Sunar may derive from the Sanskrit suvarna kār, "worker in gold".

Surnames

The Sunar use Soni, Seth, Swarnkar, Shah, Singh, Puri, Bhutani, Sonik, Kapoor, Mehra, Rastogi, Verma,Saraf etc. as their surnames.

Swarnkar in india

In india there are more than 2 lakh sunars

Kannaujia Swarnkar in bihar,up and jharkhand are the Suryavanshi Rathore rajputs.

Maidh kshatriya swarnkar are the maidh rajputs found in rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh

And the mair rajputs in punjab.

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districts:

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Famous Sunar Personality

Raj Babbar Film Actor & Politician
Parmish Verma Punjabi Singer & Performer

References

R.V. Russell (October 1995). The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India. Vol. IV. Published Under the Orders of the Central Provinces Administration, Macmillan and Co., Limited St. Martin's Street, London. 1916. p. 517. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
2011 Nepal Census, District Level Detail Report
https://translate.google.com/translate?u=https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/how-and-why-congress-chose-raj-babbar-to-head-up-fight/&hl=hi&sl=en&tl=hi&client=srp&prev=search

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