Chudasama (Mer clan)

{{Short description|Clan of the Mer people in India}}

{{Infobox tribe

| name = Chudasama

| type = Clan (Gotra) in Gujarat

| ethnicity = Mer Maher

| location = Gujarat

| language = {{hlist | Gujarati | Hindi }}

| religion = Hindu

}}

Chudasama is a Gujarati clan of the Mer ethnic people.

{{Cite book |last=Lal |first=R. B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Cy_-FXW9BQC&dq=solanki+mers&pg=PA906 |title=Gujarat |date=2003 |publisher=Popular Prakashan |isbn=978-81-7991-104-4 |pages=906 |language=en |quote=The Mers of Saurashtra have fourteen lineages. Here the word lineage is used to denote all male and female members descending from founder male ancestor (Trivedi 1961). The lineages are Keshwara, Rajshakha. Oderdara, Sisodia, Parmar, Waghela, Chudasma, Chuahan, Bhatti, Vala, Jadeja, Solanki, Chavada and Vadher.}}

{{Cite book |last=Ilaiah |first=Kancha |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bzj1pyBKZzsC&dq=Mer+clan+solanki&pg=PA242 |title=Buffalo Nationalism: A Critique of Spiritual Fascism |date=2004 |publisher=Popular Prakashan |isbn=978-81-85604-69-5 |pages=242 |language=en}}

{{Cite web |last=Saurashtra |first=University |date=2009 |title=Ethnobotany of the Maher tribe in Porbandar district of Gujarat, India |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11821969.pdf |website=www.core.ac.uk}}

They are found in different districts of Gujarat, India.{{Cite book |last=Singh |first=K. S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bfAMAQAAMAAJ&q=Mer&pg=PA1283 |title=Communities, Segments, Synonyms, Surnames and Titles |date=1996 |publisher=Anthropological Survey of India |isbn=978-0-19-563357-3 |pages=1581 |language=en}} It is one of the most important clan of the fourteen clans in the Mer community.