Pathania

{{short description|Indian clan and surname}}

{{distinguish|Pathan|Pathani}}

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Pathania is a surname of Indian origin. It is a sub-clan of the Tomar (Tanwar/Toor) Rajput clan from northern India.{{Cite book |last=Punjab (India) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mTNuAAAAMAAJ&q=pathania+chandravanshi |title=Punjab District Gazetteers: Gurdaspur. Supplement |date=1979 |publisher=Controller of Print. and Stationery |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Mirzā |first=Shafqat Tanvīr |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oLpjAAAAMAAJ&q=pathania+rajput |title=Resistance Themes in Punjabi Literature |date=1992 |publisher=Sang-e-Meel Publications |isbn=978-969-35-0101-8 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Goswami |first=Modhumita |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ONh9EAAAQBAJ&dq=pathania+rajput&pg=PA42 |title=An Army Wife on a Trapeze: Travel, Tales and more |date=2022-07-27 |publisher=Blue Hill Publications |isbn=978-93-92929-52-6 |language=en}} The royal family of Nurpur kingdom belonged to this clan.{{cite book |editor1=Rosemary Crill |editor2=Kapil Jariwala |title=The Indian Portrait, 1560-1860 |year=2010 |publisher=Mapin |isbn=9788189995379 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ongF6dkNKAcC |page=142 }}{{cite book |title=The Princely and Noble Families of the Former Indian Empire: Himachal Pradesh |volume=1 |first=Mark |last=Brentnall |publisher=Indus Publishing |year=2004 |pages=350–358 |isbn=978-8-17387-163-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ayYbAvECXQwC&pg=PA350}}