Kinwar

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Kinwar is a clan whose members belong to the Rajput caste.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=voe3AAAAIAAJ&q=kinwar+ | title=Caste: The Colonial Theories | year=2004 | publisher=Omsons Publications | accessdate=30 December 2018 | pages=3| isbn=9788171172153 }} The Rajput's members principally reside in the states of Bihar and Eastern Uttar Pradesh.{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dxDWbsztdVQC&dq=kinwar+bhumihar&pg=PA115 | title=Evolution and Spatial Organization of Clan Settlements: A Case Study of Middle Ganga Valley | publisher=Concept Publishing Company | accessdate=30 December 2018 | author=Saiyad Hasan Ansari | year=1986 | pages=115}} A particularly large population of Kinwar Rajputs can be found in Ballia district.The founders of the Kharagpur Raj principality in Bihar were Kinwar Kshatriya.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHEcBTmxlOEC&q=kinwar+&pg=PA18 | title=Kin, Clan, Raja, and Rule: Statehinterland Relations in Preindustrial India | year=1971 | publisher=University of California Press, 1971 | accessdate=30 December 2018 | pages=18–21| isbn=9780520018075 }}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TTpbtbmfTk0C&dq=kinwar+bhumihar&pg=PA86 | title=Geographical Research | accessdate=30 December 2018 | author=Kalluri Lakshmi Narasimha Murthy | year=1999 | pages=86| isbn=9788170227069 }}{{cite journal | title= | author= Yogendra P. Roy | journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |volume = 53| year=1992 | pages= 333–334|jstor = 44142804}}