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From '''The Tribes And Castes Of The Central Provinces Of India '''
 
By R. V. Russell
 
Of The Indian Civil Service
 
Superintendent Of Ethnography, Central Provinces
 
Assisted By  
Rai Bahadur Hira Lal,  
Extra Assistant Commissioner
 
Macmillan And Co., Limited, London, 1916.
 
''' NOTE 1: The 'Central Provinces' have since been renamed Madhya Pradesh. '''

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=Rajput: Huna, Hoon=

This clan retains the name and
1 Bildspur District Gazetteer, chap. * The date is too early, as is usual
ii., in which a full and interesting in these traditions. Though the
account of the Ratanpur kingdom is Ilaihaivansis only founded Ratanpur
given by Mr. C. U. Wills, C.S. about A.D. 1050, their own legends
2 Ibidem, p. 49. put it ten centuries earlier.
' Mr. Crooke's Tribes and Castes,
3,rt. riayobans, '* Rajasthan, i. p. 36.

 
memory of the Hun barbarian hordes, who invaded India
at or near the epoch of their incursions into Europe. It
is practically extinct ; but in his Western India Colonel Tod
records the discovery of a few families of Hunas in Baroda
State : " At a small village opposite Ometa I discovered
a few huts of Huns, still existing under the ancient name
of Hoon, by which they are known to Hindu history.

There are said to be three or four families of them at the
village of Trisavi, three kos from Baroda, and although
neither feature nor complexion indicate much relation to
the Tartar-visaged Hun, we may ascribe the change to
climate and admixture of blood, as there is little doubt that
they are descended from these invaders, who established a
sovereignty on the Indus in the second and sixth centuries
of the' Christian era, and became so incorporated with the
Rajput population as to obtain a place among the thirty-six
royal races of India, together with the Gete, the Kathi,
and other tribes of the Sacae from Central Asia, whose
descendants still occup)^ the land of the sun-worshipping
Saura or Chaura, no doubt one of the same race."