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From '''The Tribes And Castes Of The Central Provinces Of India '''

By R. V. Russell

Of The Indian Civil Service

Superintendent Of Ethnography, Central Provinces

Assisted By
Rai Bahadur Hira Lal,
Extra Assistant Commissioner

Macmillan And Co., Limited, London, 1916.

''' NOTE 1: The 'Central Provinces' have since been renamed Madhya Pradesh. '''

NOTE 2: While reading please keep in mind that all articles in this series have been scanned from a book. During scanning some errors are bound to occur. Some letters get garbled. Footnotes get inserted into the main text of the article, interrupting the flow. Readers who spot errors might like to correct them, and shift footnotes gone astray to their rightful place.

=Rajput:Nikumbh=

The Nikumbh is given as one of
the thirty-six royal races, but it is also the name of a
branch of the Chauhans, and it seems that, as suggested by
Sherring,^ it may be an offshoot from the great Chauhan
clan. The Nikumbh are said to have been given the title
of Sirnet by an emperor of Delhi, because they would not
bow their heads on entering his presence, and when he
fixed a sword at the door some of them allowed their necks
to be cut through by the sword rather than bend the head.
The term Sirnet is supposed to mean headless.

A Chauhan
column with an inscription of Raja Bisal Deo was erected
at Nigumbode, a place of pilgrimage on the Jumna, a few
miles below Delhi, and it seems a possible conjecture that
the Nikumbhs may have obtained their name from this
place.* Mr. Crooke, however, takes the Nikumbh to be a
separate clan. The foundation of most of the old forts
and cities in Alwar and northern Jaipur is ascribed to them,
and two of their inscriptions of the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries have been discovered in Khandesh. In northern
India some of them are now known as Raghuvansi.^ They
are chiefly found in the Hoshangabad and Nimar Districts,
and may be connected with the Raghuvansi or Raghwi
caste of these Provinces.

1 See article on Kol. Nikumbh.
2 Eastern India, ii. 461, quoted in * Rdjasthdn, ii. p. 417.
Mr. Crooke's art. Nagvansi. ^ Mr. Crooke's 'I'ribcs and Castes,
2 Tribes and Castes, vol. i. art. art. Nikumbh.

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