In Punjab, Samra or optionally term as Sumra Parmara[1] is an lineage ethically composed of wealthy landowners and Amritdhari (Gursikh Jats),[2][3][4] entirely confined to Sikh faith, they gain political dominance after Chaudhary Raja Singh (Samra Misdar) organised a strategic alliance to Married his daughter to Mahraja Khark Singh, Ruler of Sikh Empire.[5]: 39
The Samra or Somro were historically considered as integral kingsmen often associated with the Samra lineage . partially overthrown by the Samma dynasty."[6]
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References
- ^ Bellew, Henry Walter (1891). An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan. Oriental University Institute. p. 139.
whose dynasty flourished there after the Tahiri. Samra is Sumra Pramara.
- ^ Rattigan, Sir William Henry (1966). A Digest of Civil Law for the Punjab: Chiefly Based on the Customary Law as at Present Ascertained. University Book Agency.
- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Lenarčič, Simon (2022). Dictionary of American family names. Peter McClure (Second ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 1 Indian (Punjab): Sikh name of unexplained etymology, derived from the name of a Jat tribe. ISBN 978-0-19-024511-5.
- ^ Barstow, A. E. (1989). Handbook on Sikhs. Uppal Publishing House. ISBN 978-81-85024-54-7.
- ^ Griffin, Sir Lepel Henry (1890). The Panjab Chiefs: Historical and Biographical Notices of the Principal Families in the Lahore and Rawalpindi Divisions of the Panjab. Civil and Military Gazette Press.
Wives of Kharakh Singh
Kishan kaur Daughter of Chaudhary Raj Singh Samra of Amritsar was married in lahore 1818 and died at lahore in 1876: 39 - ^ Balfour, Edward Green (1885). The cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, commercial, industrial, and scientific; products of the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms, useful arts and manufactures. Robarts - University of Toronto. London B. Quaritch. p. 224.
Sumra claim to be descendants of Sam'ra ; their sections are Kumirpota, Mitopota, Budipota, and Norungpota. ' Samra ' has been corrupted into ' Sumra,' and under this the several tribes are found in the Kurachee collectorate. They came to Sind about Hijira 445, and became the rulers of the province in 609, from which year they were in power up to 751, when th«y were overthrown by the Summa.