Janjua : A brief history

[Irfan Baloch]

Kiyanis are Rajputs too?

Gen Kyani is a gakhar rajput

known as Raja Ashfaq kyani in his area
i am just a messenger passing on what a Raja told me

 

[Proudpakistaniguy]

quality thread..havenot much to contribute so will read

The great debate is that whether the Hindu Shahis (850 AD to 1001 AD) were Janjua Rajputs or Mohyal Brahmans..My money is on the latter ...Before Hindu Shahis Kabhul was ruled by Turks who had converted to Hinduism a few hundred years earlier (all these happened post collapse of Gupta)

we had topic about it which was discussed before here

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/hindu-shahi-kings-were-not-janjua-rajputs-of-punjab.518367/page-2

Hindu Shahi dynasty had been established by Kallar the Brahmin but later, in 964 AD, Raja Jyapala Janjua wrestled it from the descendants of Kallar. Sabaktagin, with the help of his Khalj and Afghan armies, defeated Jyapala at some point in Laghman driving him out of Kabul Valley and decisive battle between Mahmud and Jayapala occured somewhere near Peshawar.

Famed ethnologists and Indo researchers Sir Alexander Cunningham, Elliot and Dowson and Sachau led research into the origins of the Pala Hindu Shahi, the second dynasty that succeeded the initial Brahmin Dev Shahi. Through independent research they concluded that the origins of Emperor Jayapala Shah was in fact in the Janjua Rajput. In 1973's Al-Biruni International Congress in Pakistan, Dr Hussain Khan presented a paper in called "An Interpretation of Al-Biruni's Account of the Hindu Shahiyas of Kabul" which also confirmed the same findings. Finally, the Janjuas own genealogy records the names of the Janjua Shahi Jayapala as well as the continued descendants of his House. There are plenty of forts i.e Nandana, malot fort in salt range region of Punjab built by the successor of Hindu shahi king Jayapala Janjua

Read this book

and also these links for useful information

https://historypak.com/hindu-shahi-dynasty/

http://indiancoinsgks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/brief-history-of-kabul-shahi-dynasty.html
http://malicethoughts.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/raja-jayapala-and-janjua-rajput-dynasty.html

 

[Juggernaut_Flat_Plane_V8]

we had topic about it which was discussed before here

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/hindu-shahi-kings-were-not-janjua-rajputs-of-punjab.518367/page-2

Hindu Shahi dynasty had been established by Kallar the Brahmin but later, in 964 AD, Raja Jyapala Janjua wrestled it from the descendants of Kallar. Sabaktagin, with the help of his Khalj and Afghan armies, defeated Jyapala at some point in Laghman driving him out of Kabul Valley and decisive battle between Mahmud and Jayapala occured somewhere near Peshawar.

Famed ethnologists and Indo researchers Sir Alexander Cunningham, Elliot and Dowson and Sachau led research into the origins of the Pala Hindu Shahi, the second dynasty that succeeded the initial Brahmin Dev Shahi. Through independent research they concluded that the origins of Emperor Jayapala Shah was in fact in the Janjua Rajput. In 1973's Al-Biruni International Congress in Pakistan, Dr Hussain Khan presented a paper in called "An Interpretation of Al-Biruni's Account of the Hindu Shahiyas of Kabul" which also confirmed the same findings. Finally, the Janjuas own genealogy records the names of the Janjua Shahi Jayapala as well as the continued descendants of his House. There are plenty of forts i.e Nandana, malot fort in salt range region of Punjab built by the successor of Hindu shahi king Jayapala Janjua

Read this book

and also these links for useful information

https://historypak.com/hindu-shahi-dynasty/

http://indiancoinsgks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/brief-history-of-kabul-shahi-dynasty.html
http://malicethoughts.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/raja-jayapala-and-janjua-rajput-dynasty.html

Thanks a lot for this..They were the first to stand against Turkic depredations..My heart goes out to them

 

[Naofumi]

In 1973's Al-Biruni International Congress in Pakistan, Dr Hussain Khan presented a paper in called "An Interpretation of Al-Biruni's Account of the Hindu Shahiyas of Kabul" which also confirmed the same findings.

Any more credible source?