Sengar

{{Short description|Clan of Rajputs in India}}

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Sengar are a clan of Rajputs in India with Brahmin origin.{{Cite book|editor=Krishna Prakash Bahadur|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=UzxuAAAAMAAJ&q=sengar+brahman&dq=sengar+brahman&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjh39KQ4Z2MAxXrTGwGHfpZFSI4FBDoAXoECAUQAw#sengar%20brahman|title=Caste, Tribe and culture of Rajputs|date=1978}}{{cite book |title=The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India |first=Eric |last=Stokes |author-link=Eric Thomas Stokes |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1980 |isbn=9780521297707 |pages=78–81}}

The central Indian state Madhya Pradesh was the location of battles and lesser-known rule of the Sengar Rajputs. In the eleventh century CE, they migrated from Jalaun to the fertile area of Rewa district known as Mauganj. They constructed garhis (forts) in Mauganj, Nai Garhi, Mangawan, and Bichhrata that was historically known as 'Mau Raj'. This kingdom battled and survived the invasion of the Kalachuris.{{cite book |title=Baghelkhand, Or, the Tigers' Lair: Region and Nation in Indian History |volume=1 |editor1-first=David E.U. |editor1-last=Baker |edition=Reprinted |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2007 |orig-year=2007 |isbn=9780195683219 |pages=68, 88, 195}}{{rp|68}}

Accordingly, Sengars were the offsprings of the Brahmin named Singhi{{Cite book|editor=Krishna Prakash Bahadur|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=UzxuAAAAMAAJ&q=sengar+brahman&dq=sengar+brahman&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjh39KQ4Z2MAxXrTGwGHfpZFSI4FBDoAXoECAUQAw#sengar%20brahman|title=Caste, Tribe and culture of Rajputs|date=1978}}{{cite journal |title=The Territorial Basis of Medieval Town and Village Settlement in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India |first=Kashi N. |last=Singh |journal=Annals of the Association of American Geographers |volume=58 |issue=2 |date=June 1968 |pages=203–220 |jstor=2561611 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-8306.1968.tb00640.x}} {{subscription required}} who was the son-in-law of Gaharwar raja of Kannauj, married to his daughter Shanta. Brahmin Singhi had two sons, from one son Gautam Rajputs were descended and from the other son Sengar Rajputs were descended.